The shifting of globe making interest to the northwest of Europe at the close of the sixteenth century.--The Van Langrens as leaders.--Jodocus Hondius and his son Henricus.--Willem Jansz. Blaeu and his sons, John and Cornelius.--The Ferreri armillary sphere.--Globes of Peter Plancius.--Isaac Habrecht.--Globes of Mattheus Greuter and their reproduction by Rossi.--Manfredus Settàla.--Abraham Goos.--Adam Heroldt. Chapter XI: Globes of the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century 72 Certain striking tendencies exhibited in the matter of globe making in this period.--The Gottorp globes.--Weigel’s globes.--Carlo Benci.--Amantius Moroncelli.--Castlemaine’s immovable globe.--The armillary of Treffler.--Armillary sphere of Gian Battista Alberti.--The numerous globes of P. Vincenzo Coronelli.--Certain anonymous globes of the period.--Johannes Maccarius.--Jos. Antonius Volpes.--Vitale Giordani.--George Christopher Eimmart.--Giuseppe Scarabelli.--Giovanni Battista.--Joseph Moxon.--The Chinese globes of Peking. Chapter XII: Globes and Globe Makers of the First Half of the Eighteenth Century--from Delisle to Ferguson 137 Activities of Guillaume Delisle.--Jean Dominique Cassini and his reforms.--Vincenzo Miot.--The globes of Gerhard and Leonhard Valk.--Activities of John Senex.--Nicolas Bion.--The armillary sphere of Carmelo Cartilia.--Mattheus Seutter of Augsburg.--Robert Morden.--Jean Antoine Nollet.--Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr of Nürnberg.--Terrestrial globe of Cusani.--Terrestrial globes of Siena.--The work of the monk Pietro Maria da Vinchio.--James Ferguson of Scotland. Chapter XIII: Globes and Globe Makers of the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century 175 Few globe makers of striking distinction in this period.--An apparent decrease in scientific interest in globes, but an apparent increase in popular interest.--Gilles and Didier Robert de Vaugondy.--The work of Desnos.--Globes of Gian Francesco Costa the Venetian.--Globes of Akerman and Akrel.--The French globe makers Rigobert Bonne and Lalande.--Charles Messier and Jean Fortin.--Globes of George Adams the Elder, of George Adams the Younger, and of Dudley Adams.--Small globes of Nathaniel Hill.--The work of Innocente Alessandri and Pietro Scaltaglia.--Charles Francis Delamarche.--Manuscript globes of Vincenzo Rosa.--Geographer and globe maker Giovanni Maria Cassini.--Globes of William Cary. Chapter XIV: The Technic of Globe Construction--Materials and Methods 196