87. Celestial Globe of B. F., 1600. _From original in Math. Phys. Salon, Dresden_ 216 CHAP. TAILPIECES PAGE II. The Egyptian Gnomon. _From pen drawing_ 25 III. Arabic Celestial Globe. _From Dorn’s illustration_ 34 V. Ship. _From early portolan chart_ 58 VI. Honter Globe. _From his Rudimenta cosmographica_ 93 VII. Portuguese Arms 145 VIII. Compass Rose. _From Martines Atlas, 1582_ 171 IX. Base of Apianus Globe, 1576 218 Foreword. Hitherto there has not appeared in English a detailed historical treatise on globes terrestrial and celestial. The publications are somewhat numerous, it is true, in which a very general consideration has been given to the uses of globes, including a reference to their important structural features, and to the problems geographical and astronomical in the solution of which they may be counted of service. There are a few studies, critical and historical, touching certain selected examples of the early globe maker’s handiwork which can be cited. Attention, for example, may here be directed to Sir Clements Markham’s valuable introduction to his excellent English translation of Hues’ ‘Tractatus de Globis,’ a work originally prepared for the purpose of furnishing a description of the Molyneaux globes, in which introduction he undertook “to pass in review the celestial and terrestrial globes which preceded or were contemporaneous with the first that were made in England (1592) so far as a knowledge of them has come down to us,” yet the learned author cites but a fraction of the many globes referred to in the following pages. In Ravenstein’s ‘Behaim, His Life and His Globe,’ we have perhaps the most scholarly treatment of its kind in any language, but the study is limited to the work of one man, the maker of the oldest extant terrestrial globe, which is dated 1492.