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
Château Marly, Coronelli’s large globe constructed for Louis XIV placed
in, II, 99
Chieri, Convent of Mission Brothers (Frati della Missione),
II, 184 (Fortin); 258 (Delamarche)
Chignolo, Cusani Palace, II, 163 (Anonymous)
Cicero, allusion to Archimedes’ globe, I, 15, 16
Claudio de la Baume, to him De Mongenet dedicates his terrestrial
globe, I, 149
Clement X, Pope, Benci dedicates to him his globe of 1671, II, 80
Clermont, Count of, Nollet dedicates to him his celestial globe of
1730, II, 158
Cleveland, Western Reserve Historical Society, II, 255 (Cary)
Clocks, globes as a part of, I, 57, n. 110
Cockrill, Thomas, II, 156
Colbert, Jean Baptiste, proposes Cassini for the Chair of Astronomy
in Collège de France, II, 141
College of Navarre, II, 157
Cologne, City Archives, I, 113 (Vopel)
Colorado River, referred to by Adams as flowing directly westward
into the Pacific, II, 186
Columbus, Bartholomew, sketch maps showing Asiatic connection of
the New World, I, 95
Columbus, Christopher,
his place in the history of terrestrial globes, I, 52;
interested in globes if not a maker of them, 52, 53;
said to have sent their Catholic Majesties a globe, 53
Como, Communal Library (Biblioteca Comunale), II, 44 (Blaeu)
Compass, variations referred to, II, 10, 17
Constance, Liceum Library, I, 53 (Stöffler)
Constellations,
antiquity of star grouping, I, 1;
Eudoxus’ part in fixing names of, 15;
Aratus’ contribution, 15;
Ptolemy’s names of constellations, 24, n. 14;
proposals of Bede, Bayer, Schiller, Weigel, Moroncelli (see
reference to each);
those of the Antarctic, II, 108; 133, n. 69
Cook, Captain,
referred to by Viani, II, 189;
by Cassini, 192
Copenhagen, National Museum, I, 114 (Vopel); II, 74 (Gottorp);
75 (Theodorus)
Corfu, Archbishop of, possessed a globe, I, 152
Coronelli, Vincenzo Maria, given title _Cosmografo della Serenissima
Republica_, II, 98
Correggio, Communal Library (Biblioteca Comunale), II, 184 (Fortin)
Cortereal, Miguel and Gaspar, explorers, II, 39
Cortona, Etruscan Academy (Accademia Etrusca), II, 88 (Moroncelli);
92, 93 (Moroncelli)
Cosimo de’ Medici, interested in maps and globes, I, 159
Cosmas Indicopleustes, opposed the doctrine of a spherical earth,
I, 36
Cracow, Jagellonicus Library, I, 74 (Jagellonicus)
Crates, reputed the first to construct a globe, I, 7;
his idea concerning the earth’s surface, 8;
referred to by Strabo, 8
Cremona, Governmental Library (Biblioteca Governativo), I, 133
(Mercator)
Crevalcuore, Communal Library (Biblioteca Comunale), II, 192
(Cassini)
Cusani, Cardinal Agostino, II, 163
Dalberg, Bishop of Worms, receives a globe from Johann Stöffler,
I, 54
Dante, belief in a spherical earth, I, 43
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