Coronelli worked in various European countries in the following years, before permanently returning to Venice in 1705. Here he started his own cosmographical project and published the volumes of "Atlante Veneto". In his home city he founded the very first geographical society, the Accademia Cosmografica degli Argonauti. He also held the position of Cosmographer of the Republic of Venice. Later six volumes of the "Biblioteca Universale Sacro-Profana" were published by Coronelli. This was a kind of encyclopedia, its compiled entries ordered alphabetically.