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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 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

Name: 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
Author: Stevenson, Edward Luther

Stevenson, Edward Luther

Geography -- History; Globes

127a. Pocket Globe of James Ferguson, 1750 (?). _From original
         in collection of The Hispanic Society of America,
         New York_                                                 170

 127b. Terrestrial Globe of Herman Moll, 1705. _From original
         in collection of The Hispanic Society of America,
         New York_                                                 170


  CHAPTER XIII

  128. Terrestrial Globe of Pietro Rosini, 1762. _From original in
         the University Library, Bologna_                          180

  129. Armillary Sphere of Jean Fortin, 1780. _From original in
         collection of The Hispanic Society of America, New
         York_                                                     184

 129a. Globe of L. C. Desnos, 1782. _From original, Piacenza_      178

  130. Terrestrial Globe of George Adams, 1782. _From original
         in Astronomical Museum, Rome_                             186

 130a. Terrestrial Globe of Nathaniel Hill, 1754. _From original
         in New York Public Library_                               188

  131. Terrestrial Globe of Giovanni Maria Cassini, 1790. _From
         original in Astronomical Museum, Rome_                    192

  132. Anonymous Terrestrial Globe, ca. 1800. _From original in
         collection of The Hispanic Society of America, New
         York_                                                     194


  CHAPTER XIV

  133. Astrolabe. _From Joseph Moxon, A Tutor to Astronomy
         and Geography, 1695_                                      197

  134. Globe Gores of Henricus Glareanus, 1527. _From his
         Geographia liber unus_                                    203

  135. Gore Map of Leonardo da Vinci, ca. 1515                     206

  136. Anonymous Globe Gores in Plane Map Construction, ca.
         1550. _From original manuscript in John Carter Brown
         Library, Providence_                                      206

  137. Portrait of Johann Hevelius (Hevel). _From his Prodromus_   208

  138. Constellation of Orion by Hevelius. _From his Prodromus_    212

  139. Constellation Ursa Major. _From Apianus Cosmographicus
         liber, 1529_                                              210

  140. Terrestrial Globe Gores by Johannes Oterschaden, ca.
         1675. _From original in collection of The Hispanic
         Society of America_                                       214

  141. Celestial Globe Gores by Johannes Oterschaden, ca. 1675.
         _From original in collection of The Hispanic Society of
         America_                                                  216

  142. Engraved Sections for Globe Horizon Circle by Johannes
         Oterschaden, ca. 1675. _From original in collection of
         The Hispanic Society of America_                          216

  143. The Orrery. _From an engraving by William Pether after
         engraving by Joseph Wright_                               218

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