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
[213] Russel, J. A description of the selenographia, an apparatus
for exhibiting the phaenomena of the moon; together with an account
of some of the purposes to which it may be applied. London, 1797. In
his effort to obtain funds for the construction of his globe he
issued an announcement which he called a “Proposal for publishing by
subscription a Globe of the Moon.”
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Bibliographical List
The following bibliographical list includes the works referred
to in the body of the foregoing pages, with certain additions of
those touching incidentally globe making and globe makers. It is a
suggestive list, not one that can be called exhaustive. Practically all
those works in which the subject of geography and of astronomy has
been treated historically may be consulted with interest and profit.
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ADAMS, G. A treatise describing and explaining the construction and
the use of new celestial and terrestrial globes, designed to
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Astronomical and geographical essays. London, 1795.
A treatise on the construction of globes. London, 1769.
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AMARI, M. Storia dei Musulmani di Sicilia. Firenze, 1868.
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ANNALES DE GÉOGRAPHIE. Paris, 1891--.
ANNUARIO ASTRO-METEOROLOGICO con efemeridi nautichi. Venezia, 1882--.
ANONYMOUS. Treatise of the use of globes celestial and terrestrial.
London, 1647.
ANONYMOUS. W. J. Blaeus Antheil an der Bestimmung der Erdlangen.
Stuttgart, 1875.
Portraits des hommes et des femmes illustrés par renaissance, n. p.,
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1847.
ARCHAEOLOGIA. London, 1865.
ARCHER, G. M. Henry Hudson, the Navigator. (In: Hakluyt Society
Publications. London, 1860.)
ARCO, C. DE. Delle arti e degli artifici di Mantova. Mantova, 1857.
ARISTOTLE. De Coelo. Tr. by T. Taylor, with title On the Heavens from
the Greek with copious elucidations. London, 1807.
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