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
[195] Consult Günther. Erd- und Himmelsgloben. pp. 72-73; Kästner.
Geschichte der Mathematik. Vol. I, p. 684. See Günther, op. cit.,
chaps, vii, x, xii, xiii, xiv, with numerous references.
[196] Henrici Glareani poetae laureati de geographia liber unus.
Basileae, 1527.
[197] There is an interesting bit of information given by Coronelli
in his ‘Epitome Cosmografica’ relative to the making of an adhesive
material for use in the mounting of globe maps.
[198] See Fig. 61.
[199] See Figs. 59 and 66.
[200] Such, for example, as might consist of zonal strips, one for
the torrid, one for each of the temperate, and one for each of the
polar zones. Such strips perhaps could not properly be termed gores.
[201] Pictures are a particularly striking feature of the cloister
maps of the middle ages. The idea of such adornments may have come
down from Greek or Roman days. Plutarch tells us in his ‘Theseus’
that “Geographers crowd into the edge of their maps parts of the
world about which they have no knowledge, adding notes in the
margins to the effect that only deserts full of wild beasts and
impassable marshes lie beyond.” Jonathan Swift, humorously referring
to maps of the early period, writes:
“So geographers in Afric maps With savage pictures fill their gaps
And o’er unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns.”
The early map makers as illustrators should be an interesting theme
for a special monograph.
[202] Nonius, P. De arte atque ratione navigandi. Conimbriae, 1573,
lib. II, c. xxi, xxiv; Hues. Tractatus de Globis (Hakluyt Soc.
Pub.). pp. 127-147.
[203] For illustration of the method, see Fig. 89.
[204] Burritt, L. H. The geography of the heavens. New York, 1833;
Allen, R. H. Star names and their meanings; Wolf. Geschichte der
Astronomie. pp. 188-191, 420-427; Olcott, W. T. Starlore of all
ages. New York, 1911.
[205] The literature relating to this particular branch of astronomy
is extensive. Wolf, loc. cit., with references.
[206] See especially Fig. 13.
[207] See Fig. 121a.
[208] See Fig. 88.
[209] Wolf, R. Handbuch der Astronomie, ihre Geschichte und
Litteratur. Zürich, 1893. pp. 451 ff.; Frobesius. Bibliographie
Selenographorum. Helmstädt, 1718.
[210] Hevelius, J. Selenographiae sive Lunae descriptio. Danzig,
1647. pp. 492 ff.; Béziat, L. C. La vie et les travaux de Jean
Hévélius.
[211] Lalande. Bibliographie astronomique, “La Hire.”
[212] Mayer, T. Abhandlung über die Umwälzung des Mondes um seine
Achse und die scheinbare Bewegung der Mondflecke. Nürnberg, 1750;
same, Bericht von den Mondskugeln, welche bei der kosmographischen
Gesellschaft in Nürnberg aus neuen Beobachtungen verfertigt
werden. Nürnberg, 1750.
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