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
History
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
The maps on these globes present no features of special scientific
value, the author following in the main the best contemporary
geographical and astronomical records. It should, however, be noted that
he introduced an improvement in the construction and printing of the
circular polar discs. To the end of remedying the difficulty in
attaching this part of the covering, having observed, as others, that
the paper would expand with the application of paste, and could
therefore not be adjusted with the strictest accuracy and nicety, he
conceived the idea of cutting from this disc a very small section or
small sections, so that when it was applied to the sphere after being
moistened with the paste the amount of stretching was sufficient to
cover the space. In other words, he made his circular disc one of 350
degrees instead of one having the full 360 degrees. In this connection,
it might be noted that the quality of the paper was an element always to
be taken into account in calculating the amount of expansion after
moistening.
A pair of Seutter’s globes may be found in the Biblioteca Comunale of
Macerata. A copy of the terrestrial is reported in 1892 to have been in
the private library of Professor Maximilian Tono of Venice, a pair in
the Museo Astronomico of Rome (Figs. 124, 125) and also in this museum
may be found a complete set of the gores for one of his terrestrial as
well as a set for one of his celestial globes, but which by Professor
Jacoli of Venice have been thought to be reprints and not originals. A
copy of the celestial globe may be found in the Biblioteca Universitario
of Urbino.
[Illustration: Fig. 124. Terrestrial Globe of Mattheus Seutter, 1710.]
[Illustration: Fig. 125. Celestial Globe of Mattheus Seutter, 1710.]
[Illustration: Fig. 125a. Terrestrial Globe of Van Lauen Zonen, 1745.]
Robert Morden,[144] active in London in the closing years of the
seventeenth and early years of the eighteenth century as map and globe
maker, seems, however, not to have won for himself a place of particular
prominence, his maps not being held in especially high repute. He was
for some time associated with Thomas Cockrill at “The Sign of the Atlas”
in Cornhill. Morden, however, published a small work on geography and
navigation in the year 1702, in which he attempted to set forth the
value attaching to globes for those interested in the general subject of
which he treated in his work.[145] While his map publications are
numerous, it has been possible to locate only the gores of one of his
globes, which gores may be found in the British Museum. Of the twelve
sections which made up a complete set for covering a sphere about 35
cm. in diameter, but nine remain, three having disappeared.
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