Louis de l'Isle de la Croyère was a French astronomer in Russian service who became an academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg.
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Guillaume Delisle, also spelled Guillaume de l'Isle, or Guillelmo Delille was a French cartographer known for his popular and accurate maps of Europe and the newly explored Americas.
Louis de l'Isle de la Croyère
…of Sciences in Saint Petersburg. Louis de l'Isle was the son of historian and geographer Claude Delisle (1644–1720) and half brother of cartographer Guillaume Delisle (1675–1726). He was invited to Russia in February 1726 by his brother Nicolas (1688–1768) who had arrived the previous year as the director of the…
Guillaume Delisle portrayed by Konrad Westermayr, 1802
Delisle's L'Afrique, 1700
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