Docno: ADMS-03-01-02-0007-0006-0024
Author: Adams, John Quincy
Date: 1785-04-30
I went into Paris in the morning, and called upon Mr. d'Asp the secretary of the Sweedish
Embassy, and we went together, to the Abbé Grenet's, a professer of the College of
St. Jean de Beauvais, who has invented a curious sort of Sphere, with brass circles
round it, by which he shows the motion of the Sun, and moon, and by means of which
he has made some, astronomical observations, unknown before. He has also published
an Atlas, which is extremely usefull in Schools, and for all persons that Study the
Classic authors, he has made double maps, of all those parts of the world that were
known in Antiquity: one side represents the Country as the ancients knew it, and the
other shows the same, in its present State. He is at present employ'd in making detailed
maps of the kingdom of France, which will also, be a very interesting work. I took
a Copy of his Atlas.
1 Went to see a painter in the Louvre. Walk'd in the Tuileries with Mr. d'Asp. Went
to Mr. West's and to Mr. Ruston's lodgings but neither was at home. Late before I
got out to Auteuil.