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
[184] Doppelmayr. Nachrichten. pp. 45-50; Varnhagen, F. A.
de. Jo. Schöner e P. Apianus (Benewitz) influencia de um e
outro e de varios de seus contemporaneos na adopção do nome
America. Vienna, 1872; Stevens, H. Johann Schöner, professor
of Mathematics at Nuremberg; a reproduction of his globe of
1523 long lost; his dedicatory letter to Reymer von
Streytperck and the ‘De Moluccis’ of Maximilianus
Transylvanus, with a new translation and notes of the globe.
Ed. with an introduction and bibliography by Coote, C. H.
London, 1888. pp. xxxix-xliv contains a short biography of
Schöner; Algemeine Deutsche Biographie, “Schöner.”
[185] Harrisse. B.A.V. No. 80. The full title with
bibliographical references are here given. In addition to
the mere title we read “Cum Globis cosmographicis: sub
mulcta quinquaginta florenorum Rhen. et amissione omnium
exemplarium.” “With a cosmographical globe: under a fine of
five hundred Rhenish florins and forfeiting all copies.”
[186] Wieser. Magalhâes-Strasse. See especially chap. iii,
“Der Globus Schöners vom J. 1515,” and reproduction, pl. II;
Reproduction in Jomard, Nos. 15-16.
[187] Harrisse. B.A.V. p. xlix, note 156; also Nos. 99, 100.
[188] Stevenson. Martin Waldseemüller and the early
Lusitano-Germanic Cartography.
[189] Schöner. Luculentissima. fol. 60.
[190] Schöner. Luculentissima. verso of fol. 60.
[191] Wieser, op. cit.; Ghillany. Geschichte des Seefahrers
Ritter Martin Behaim. pp. 8-12. Ghillany reproduces the
western hemisphere of the globe in the original colors;
Kohl, J. G. History of the Discovery of Maine. (In:
Documentary history of the State of Maine. Portland, 1869.)
Vol. I, pp. 158-163. This contains a much reduced
reproduction of Ghillany’s facsimile of the western
hemisphere; Nordenskiöld, op. cit., p. 80; Santarem. Atlas.
pl. 52 (H. S. A. copy); Lelewel. Géographie du moyen âge.
pl. 46.
[192] The inscription reads as given by Ghillany.
[193] Practically all of the works cited relating to Schöner
treat more or less fully of the geographical features of
Schöner’s globes. Wieser’s work is particularly valuable.
[194] Stevens, op. cit., gives this letter in facsimile with
translation; Wieser, op. cit., pp. 118-122, reprints the
Latin of this letter.
[195] Harrisse, op. cit., pp. 519-528.
[196] Wieser, op. cit., p. 121.
[197] Oberhummer, E. Leonardo da Vinci and the art of the
renaissance in its relation to geography. (In: The
Geographical Journal. London, 1909. See pp. 561-569 on
Albrecht Dürer.)
[Illustration: Honter Globe. _From his Rudimenta cosmographica_]
Chapter VII
Globes of the Second Quarter of the Sixteenth Century
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