Louis XIV, Coronelli dedicates to him his great globe, II, 100, 101 Loxodrome (Rhumb) lines, represented by Mercator, I, 128; by Hondius, II, 7; by Blaeu, 28, 35; by Habrecht, 52; their purpose and their representation, 208, 209 Lucca, Library Sr. Giannini, II, 8 (Hondius). Governmental Library (Biblioteca Governativo), II, 59 (Greuter); 44 (Blaeu); 177 (Vaugondy). Machiavellian Liceum, II, 184 (Messier) Macerata, Episcopal Seminary (Seminario Vescovile), II, 61 (Greuter). Communal Library (Biblioteca Comunale), II, 156 (Seutter). Library Vittorio Bianchini, II, 194 (Cary) Madrid, Royal Library (Biblioteca Real), II, 152 (Senex); 119 (Coronelli); 141 (Delisle); 186 (Adams); 253 (Blaeu) Magellan, Ferdinand, demonstrates his plan by use of a globe, I, 81; influence of his voyage on idea of American-Asiatic connection, 96, 109, 110 Maine, Duchesse of, Nollet dedicates to her his terrestrial globe of 1728, II, 158 Maiollo, Vesconte de, map of 1527, I, 105 Malcolm, Sir John, presents Arabic globe to Asiatic Society, I, 29 Mandeville, Sir John, I, 193 Manhattan, oldest dated map reference to as an island on Blaeu globe, 1622, II, 41 Mantua, Gonzaga Library, II, 59 (Greuter); 111 (Coronelli) Map making, reform in, II, 137, 138, 139. 151, 171, n. 121 Maps, early Egyptian, I, 2; early Babylonian, 3 Marinus, introduces idea of inscribing on a map lines of latitude and longitude, I, 5 Matelica, Private Library, II, 262 (Greuter) Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange, Hondius honors with a globe dedication, II, 5; Blaeu dedicates a globe to him, 25 Maxwell, John, issued atlas with John Senex, II, 151 Mela, Pomponius, geographer and map maker, I, 5 Mellinus, Paulus, Rossi dedicates to him a globe, II, 14 Mercator, Gerhard, his important maps of 1538, I, 125; of 1554, of 1564, of 1569, 126; peculiarities of his globe gores, 128; reasons for his belief in an austral continent, 130 Meridian, Prime, its location and efforts to determine same, by Hondius, II, 11; by Blaeu, 36, 37; by Plancius, 48, 52; by Greuter, 57; by Moroncelli, 89; by Coronelli, 110; Coronelli cites Eratosthenes, Marinus, Ptolemy, Aboulfeda, Alfonso, Pigafetta, Herrera, Copernicus, Reinhold, Kepler, Longomontanus, Lansberg, Ricciola, Janssonius; by Moxon, 127; by Nollet, 158 Messina, University Library (Biblioteca Universitario), II, 59 (Greuter) Middle Ages, lack of interest in fundamental principles of geographical and astronomical science, I, 35; attitude toward the Bible as the true source of geographical knowledge, 36; survival of Aristotelian doctrine of a spherical earth, 36; theories did not call for an interest in globes, 36, 37