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CORONELLI

Volume 5 · 105 words · 1797 Edition

(Vincent), a famous geographer, born at Venice. His skill in the mathematics having brought him to the knowledge of the count d'Eltree, his eminence employed him in making globes for Louis XIV. With this view Coronelli spent some time... Coroner.

time at Paris; and left a great number of globes there, which are esteemed. In 1685, he was made cosmographer to the republic of Venice; and four years after, public professor of geography. He founded an academy of cosmography at Venice; and died in that city in 1718. He published above 400 geographical charts, an abridgment of cosmography, several books on geography, and other works.