Terrestrial and Celestial Globes Volume 2: 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 2: 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
Examples of Coronelli’s work belonging to this group may be found in the
following libraries or museums: In the Landesmuseum of Zürich (Fig.
114); in the Seminario Vescovile of Aversa; in the Biblioteca Comunale
of Bologna; in the Archivo di Stato of Bologna; in the Biblioteca
Privato of Professor Liuzzi of Bologna; in the Convento dell’ Osservanza
of Bologna; in the Museo di Strumenti Antichi of Florence; in the Museo
Civico of Genoa; a copy of the celestial in the British Museum of
London; in the Biblioteca Brancacciana of Naples; in the Biblioteca
Nazionale of Naples; in the Biblioteca Nazionale of Palermo; in the
Biblioteca Antoniana of Padua; in the Bibliothèque Nationale of Paris;
in the Biblioteca Classense of Ravenna; in the Biblioteca Lancisiana of
Rome; in the Accademia delle Scienze of Turin; in the Seminario
Patriarcale of Venice; in the Biblioteca Comunale of Vicenza; of the
terrestrial in the Royal Library of Madrid. The Vicenza examples, also
those in the Archivo di Stato of Bologna and in the Biblioteca Nazionale
of Palermo, are dedicated to the “Eminentissimo e reverendissimo
Principe” Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni. The interesting brief legend,
reading “Alexander a Via Veronensis sculpsit” on the celestial globe,
gives us clearly to understand that there were Venetian issues of that
edition which made its first appearance in Paris under the auspices of
the Société Gallica. The gores of this issue Coronelli printed in his
‘Atlante Veneto,’ Volume XI.
[Illustration: Fig. 114. Terrestrial Globe of P. Vincenzo Coronelli,
1688.]
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