Alain Manesson Mallet

Alain [ Allain ] Manesson Mallet ( * 1630 in Paris, † 1706 ) was a French cartographer and engineer.

Manesson Mallet was first a soldier and engineer in the Portuguese army and made after his return to France career in the army of Louis XIV, he was " Maître de Mathématiques " and inspector of fortifications. As an engineer and military architect, he published Les Travaux de Mars ou l' Art de la Guerre, Paris 1671; German war work or new fortress, Amsterdam 1672.

His main work Description de L' Univers appeared in 1683 in five volumes in Paris, the first German edition of cosmography description of the whole world, - Kreysses in Frankfurt from 1684 to 1685 when major publisher Johann David Zunner. The bellboy - Hofmeister and mathematics teacher at the court of the Sun King had worked for more than ten years on it. This monumental work contains a compilation of astronomical and geographical knowledge of his time, the Manesson Mallet in his self-made stitches combined in a unique way with everyday life and genre scenes.

Between 1716 and 1719 the German geographer and polymath Johann Gottfried Gregorii revised this great description of the world extensively and was the cosmography of Manesson Mallet as the second German edition anonymously from the publisher Johann Adam Jung ( Zunners heirs) in Frankfurt out. The 650 nachgestochenen and to current ruler portraits (such as Karl VI. ) Supplemented engravings reflect the geographical knowledge of the time with world imagery, maps, city views and genre, nationality representations and attractions. Gregorii took some pictures Manesson Mallets as templates for his ATLAS PORTATILIS ( 1717) and the political- geographic magazine Remarquable Curiosa ( 1715-1727 ).

1702 appeared in Paris in his last great work, the Geometry tools pratique in four volumes: geometric elements, trigonometry, plane geometry and solid geometry and its practical applications, including for architecture and garden architecture.