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
[153] Printed on the back of folded leaf at the beginning of
“Caput IX.”
[154] Gallois. Les géographes. p. 48; Fischer and v. Wieser,
op. cit., p. 14.
[155] The crude character of the map is in striking contrast
with the world map of 1507.
[156] This is an excellent reproduction of the gores, copy
of which was courteously sent the author by Prince
Liechtenstein.
[157] Printed in the lower corner of the chart on the left,
“Generalem igitur totius orbis typum, quem ante annos aucos
absolutum non sine grandi labore ex Ptolomei traditione ...
in lucem edideramus et in mille exemplaria exprimi
curavinius....”
[158] Harrisse. B. A. V. No. 62.
[159] Harrisse. Discovery. p. 465.
[160] Harrisse. B. A. V. No. 61.
[161] Harrisse. B. A. V. No. 32, Ad.
[162] Harrisse. Discovery. p. 466.
[163] De Costa, B. F. The Lenox Globe. (In: Magazine of
American History. New York, 1879. pp. 529-540.) De Costa had
the globe map redrawn and printed in plane projection. See
for reproduction, Winsor, Nordenskiöld, Encyclopaedia
Britannica. An excellent reproduction from a direct
photograph of the globe may be found in Stevenson, E. L.
Typical early maps of the New World. (In: Bulletin of the
American Geographical Society. New York, 1907. pp. 202-224.)
[164] Estreicher, T. Ein Erdglobus aus dem Anfange des XVI
Jh. in der Jagellonischen Bibliothek. (In: Bulletin
International de l’Académie des Sciences de Cracovie.
Cracovie, 1900. pp. 96-105.)
The construction of the clockwork to be found in this small
copper sphere in La Nature, 1892. No. 996, p. 75. The globe
is referred to by Stevenson, E. L., in Martin Waldseemüller
and the Lusitano-Germanic Cartography of the New World. (In:
Bulletin of the American Geographical Society. New York,
1904. pp. 193-215.)
[165] Waldseemüller, op. cit., Caput vii.
[166] Luksch, M. J. Zwei Denkmale alter Kartographie. Wien,
1886. (In: Mitteilung der k. k. Geog. Gesellschaft. Wien,
1886. pp. 364-373.); Varnhagen, F. A. Jo. Schöner e P.
Apianus. Wien, 1872. On p. 52 the opinion is expressed that
the globe was made in Brixen from the fact that this
relatively unimportant town is inscribed. Harrisse.
Discovery. pp. 491, 492; Nordenskiöld. Facsimile Atlas. p.
76.
[167] Marcel, G. Un globe manuscrit de l’école de
Schöner. Paris, 1889. (In: Bulletin de géographie historique
et descriptive. Paris, 1889. p. 173.); same author,
Reproduction de carte et de globes relatif à la découverte
de l’Amérique. Paris, 1894. pp. 11-14.
[168] Harrisse. Discovery. p. 490.
[169] Nordenskiöld. Facsimile Atlas. p. 76; reproduced on
pl. XXXVII; same author, Om en märklig globakarta frän
början af sextonde seklet. Stockholm, 1884. The latter has
been translated under the title, A remarkable globe map of
the sixteenth century, with facsimile, by E. A. Elfwing, and
published in Journal of the American Geographical Society.
New York, 1884.
[170] Here the name “America” is more clearly assigned to
the entire continent than in the Waldseemüller map.
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