Terrestrial and Celestial Globes Volume 1: Their History and Construction Including a Consideration of their Value as Aids in the Study of Geography and AstronomyStevenson, Edward Luther
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Terrestrial and Celestial Globes Volume 1: Their History and Construction Including a Consideration of their Value as Aids in the Study of Geography and Astronomy
Stevenson, Edward Luther
Geography -- History; Globes
In the same year, 1509, there issued from the press of Grüniger a second
volume, in character somewhat like the preceding, but in the Latin
language. In this the allusion to the globe is more definite, for its
title seems to assure us that it was prepared to accompany a real globe.
This title reads, “Globus mundi Declaratio siue descriptio mundi et
totius orbis terrarum. globulo rotundo comparati vt spera solida. Qua
cuiuis etiā mediocriter docto ad oculū videre licet antipodes
esse, quos pedes nostris oppositi sunt.” “Valete feliciter ex Argentina
ultima Augusti. Anno post natü salutatorē. M.D.ix. Johannes grüniger
imprimebat. Adelpho castigatore.” “The world globe. Exposition or
description of the world and of the terrestrial sphere constructed as a
round globe similar to a solid sphere, whereby every man even of
moderate learning can see with his own eyes that there are antipodes
whose feet are opposite ours.... Farewell, Strassburg on the last day of
August A.D. 1509. Printed by Johann Grüniger. Corrected by
Adolphus.”[160] Neither the author of this tract nor the maker of the
globe is known of certainty. They have been attributed to Glareanus as
well as to Waldseemüller.
There is still a third volume printed by Grüniger in this year, 1509,
which, however, appears to be but little more than a German translation
of the ‘Globus Mundi.’ The title, slightly altered, reads, “Der welt
kugel Beschrybūng der Welt und dess gātzēn Erttreichs hie angezogt ūnd
vergleicht einer rotunden kugeln die dan sunderlich gemacht hie zū
gehōrede darin der Kauffmā und ein ietlicher sehen ūnd mercken mag wie
die menschen undē gegē uns wonē ūn wie die son umbgang, herin beschriben
mit vil seltzamē dinge (wood cut of globe) Getrucht zū Strassburg. Von
Johanne Grüniger in yar. M.D.ix. uff ostern. Johanne Adelpho
castigator.” “Description of the world globe, of the world and the
entire terrestrial sphere here constructed and made to resemble a round
ball and is so arranged that the merchant and every man may clearly see
how that men live underneath us, and here may be seen how the sun moves
about (the earth) with many wonderful things. Printed at Strassburg. By
Johann Grüniger in the year 1509 at easter. Johann Adelpho
corrector.”[161] This can as confidently be taken to refer to a real
globe as the title in the tract to which reference has just been made.
It is probable that we can obtain some idea of the appearance of the
globe from the small woodcut printed on the title-page of both the Latin
and the German editions, of which a conspicuous feature is the
representation of a small land area southwest of Africa, bearing the
inscription “Nüw welt” (Fig. 33). As the little book was issued in both
Latin and German, Harrisse thinks it probable that two editions of the
globe likewise appeared.[162]
[Illustration: Fig. 33. Globus Mundi, 1509.]
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