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
Brahe, Tycho, astronomical observations followed by Hondius, II, 7, 9,
12, 21;
by Blaeu, 25, 26, 29, 33, 49; by Plancius, 49; by Greuter, 58,
61, 64;
by Moroncelli, 85, 93;
reference to his remarkable star discovered in 1572, 8, 18, 64, 67,
89
Brescia, Quirinal Library, II, 18 (Hondius).
Library Count Fenaroli, II, 159 (Nollet); 190 (Viani).
Atheneum, II, 60 (Greuter); 96 (Alberti).
Episcopal Seminary (Seminario Vescovile), II, 189 (Scaltaglia)
Brognoli, receives order for copies of Pope Julius II’s globes, I, 62
Brussels, Royal Library, I, 127 (Mercator); II, 114 (Coronelli)
Bunau, Henricus, possessed a terrestrial globe, I, 67
Bürgi, Jost, globe and clock maker, said to have invented the pendulum
clock, I, 197
Burrow, Stephen, I, 193
Button, Thomas, explorer, II, 17
Cabot, John, possessed a globe “showing where he landed,” I, 53
Cabot, Sebastian, explorer, II, 39
Cagli, Communal Library (Biblioteca Comunale), II, 179 (Costa);
189 (Scaltaglia)
Calif al-Mansur, interested in astronomy, and celestial globes,
I, 27;
many of his successors likewise interested, 27
California, represented as an island by Greuter, II, 62;
by Coronelli, 111;
by Valk, 147, 148
Camarino, Communal Library (Biblioteca Comunale), II, 59 (Greuter)
Cambridge, Eng., University Library, II, 94 (Castlemaine)
Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University, I, 152 (Florianus);
II, 170 (Ferguson)
Camerarius, refers to Mercator globes for sale at Frankfort, I, 132
Campano, Giovanni, a distinguished mediaeval writer on mathematics
and on astronomical subjects, I, 42;
his ‘Tractatis de sphera solida,’ 42
Candish (Cavendish), Thomas, explorer, II, 37
Cano, Sebastian del, reference in his will to a globe, I, 82
Canti, Barnaba, possessed a small globe, I, 65
Carpi, Cardinal of, possessed a globe, I, 152.
Episcopal Seminary (Seminario Vescovile), II, 59 (Greuter)
Carpini, I, 46
Casale Monferrate, Technical Institute (Istituto Tecnico),
II, 63 (Greuter).
Episcopal Seminary (Seminario Vescovile), II, 166 (Maria)
Caserta, Royal Library (Biblioteca Reale), II, 177 (Vaugondy)
Cassel, Royal Museum (Königliches Museum), I, 195
(Molyneux-Sanderson); 196 (Bürgi); II, 30, 44 (Blaeu);
53 (Habrecht); 126 (Moxon); 140 (Delisle); 150 (Valk);
249 (Andrea); 250 (Anonymous); 252 (Beyer); 268 (Muth Brothers);
273 (Weigel); 273 (Wellington)
Cassini, Jean Dominique, reforms globe making, II, 141;
his discoveries in the field of astronomy, 141
Catania, Physics Museum (Museo di Fisica), II, 60 (Greuter)
Celtes, Conrad, made use of globes in geographical and astronomical
instruction, I, 54, 55
Cesena, Maletesta Library (Biblioteca Maletesta), II, 192 (Cassini)
Céspedes, Garcia de, reference to small globe, II, 53
Chancellor, Richard, explorer, I, 193
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