How do you tell a person in another place or time what a dance looks like, and how it should be performed?
Images extracted from the latter half of Choregraphie, a book first published in 1700 which details a dance notation system invented in the 1680s at the court of Louis XIV. Its author, Raoul-Auger Feuillet, was maître de danse of the French King.
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/collection-of-dances-in-choreography-notation-1700