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
In the reference to the several constellations there is repeated, with
but slight alteration, the statements made on his larger globes, the
position of the fixed stars being referred to the year 1700.
Examples of the 1696 edition of Coronelli’s globes may be found in the
Seminario Vescovile of Finale; in the Biblioteca Franzoniana of Genoa;
in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum of Nürnberg; in the Biblioteca
Comunale of Perugia; in the Museo Civico of Trieste; a copy of the
terrestrial in the Biblioteca Nazionale of Florence, and one in the
Certosa of Pisa; the unmounted gores of the celestial in the Museo
Astronomico of Rome.
The globes of the year 1696 were reissued in the year 1699, with certain
unimportant alterations. It may be noted that as in certain copies of
the 1693 edition the cartouch designed for a dedicatory inscription was
left blank, that the author might insert the name of the recipient whom
he might choose to honor. So in his globes of the year 1699 he left a
like blank space, but in the terrestrial globe he inscribed what he
evidently felt he should want to insert in each instance--a dedication
in blank, as it were, reading “D. D. D. Pater Magister Vincentius
Coronelli Mon: Con: Francisci Serenissimae Venetorum Reipublicae
Cosmographus MDCLXXXXIX.” One example has been located in which the name
of the honored individual has been inserted, reading, in addition to the
author and date as above, “Illustrissimo et Praexcelso Nobili Viro D. D.
Comiti Aloysio Paoluccio Militiae Sanctae Apostolicae Sedis in Piceno
Praefecto,” this copy being in the Biblioteca Privato of Sr. Remigio
Salotti of Modena. Copies of each of the 1699 issue may also be found in
the Biblioteca Marucelliana of Florence; in the Biblioteca Vittorio
Emanuele of Rome; in the Biblioteca of the Marquis Piero Bargagli of
Rome; a copy of the terrestrial in the Museo Astronomico of Rome, a copy
of the same in the Biblioteca Nazionale of Florence, and a copy in the
Certosa of Pisa.
In one of his own publications issued in Venice in the year 1697
Coronelli tells us of an edition of his celestial globe which he was
preparing.[101] He announces “To the Public” that the large celestial
globe, three and one half feet in diameter, which he was then having
reëngraved and which would exhibit all of the artistic features of the
Paris edition of 1693, would be one of superior excellence. He adds that
the many corrections and additions, as the parts already completed
clearly indicate, would make it one very exact, and its completion was
promised before the end of the year 1698. This celestial globe was
issued in Venice in the year 1699, edited, according to an inscribed
legend, by Coronelli and the Academy of the Argonauts. We cannot with
certainty locate a copy of this globe. Perhaps it may be found in one of
the undated examples, now known, of the size designated.
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