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
Trip, John, J. U. D., globes dedicated to, II, 146
Trithemius, Johannes, purchases a terrestrial globe, 1507, I, 66
Tsarskoe, Selo Castle, II, 74 (Gottorp)
Uranienburg (Uraniburg), name given to Tycho Brahe’s observatory, I,
184, II, 19
Urbania, Communal Library (Biblioteca Comunale), I, 134 (Mercator)
Urbino, Cardinal of, possessed a globe, I, 152.
University Library (Biblioteca Universitario), II, 156 (Seutter);
179 (Costa)
Usselinx, William, organizes the West India Company, II, 46
Utrecht, Geographical Institute, II, 254 (Blaeu)
Valencia, Arabic globe constructed in, I, 28
Vannelli, Friar Giuliano, repairs clock and globe in Florentine
Signoria, I, 65;
makes globe for Cardinal Salviati, 66
Van der Noort, Oliver, reference to his voyage, II, 28
Varthema, Ludovico, referred to by Van Langren, I, 206
Veen, Adrian, associated with Hondius in globe making, II, 11, 12, 13
Venice, Marciana Library, I, 151 (Florianus); II, 83 (Moroncelli);
111 (Coronelli).
City Museum (Museo Civico), II, 44 (Blaeu); 114 (Coronelli).
Marco Foscarini Liceum (Museo Marco Foscarini), II, 44 (Blaeu);
143 (Miot).
Quirini Pinacoteca, II, 44 (Blaeu); 178 (Vaugondy).
State Archives, II, 60 (Greuter).
Patriarchal (Seminario Patriarcale), II, 114 (Coronelli).
Patriarchal Observatory (Osservatorio Patriarcale), II, 272
(Vaugondy); 258 (Delamarche).
Library Prof. Maxim. Tono, II, 270 (Seutter)
Verona, Cathedral Library (Biblioteca Capitolare), II, 162 (Doppelmayr)
Verrazano, Hieronimus de, map of 1529, I, 106
Vesoul, birthplace of François De Mongenet, I, 147
Vicenza, Library Count Francesco Franco, II, 44 (Blaeu).
City Museum (Museo Civico), II, 18 (Hondius).
Communal Library (Biblioteca Comunale), II, 114 (Coronelli)
Vienna, Library Prince Liechtenstein, I, 75 (Hauslab).
Imperial Library, I, 133 (Mercator);
II, 181 (Roll and Reinhold)
Vigevano, Episcopal Seminary (Seminario Vescovile), II, 194 (Cassini)
Vincent of Beauvais, belief in a spherical earth, I, 43
Viseo, Cardinal, possessed a terrestrial globe, I, 152
Volckamer, Paul, a patron of Behaim in the construction of his globe,
I, 48
Vosgian Gymnasium of St. Dié, I, 68
Waldseemüller, Martin, his world map of 1507, I, 69;
allusion in his “Cosmographiae Introductio” to his globe, 70
Washington, National Museum, I, 113 (Vopel).
Library of Congress, I, 115 (Vopel); 152 (Florianus);
II, 112 (Coronelli); 259 (Doppelmayr)
Weigel, Erhard, his proposed names for constellations, II, 77;
peculiarities of his globes, 77, 78
Weimar, Grand Ducal Library, I, 84, 108 (Schöner); 133 (Mercator)
Welser, patrician family of Augsburg, I, 108
Werner, Johann, his map projection, I, 151
William III, King of England, Coronelli dedicates to him his globe
of 1696, II, 115
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