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

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TERRESTRIAL AND CELESTIAL
GLOBES
THEIR HISTORY AND CONSTRUCTION
INCLUDING A CONSIDERATION OF THEIR
VALUE AS AIDS IN THE STUDY OF
GEOGRAPHY AND ASTRONOMY
BY
Edward Luther Stevenson, Ph.D., LL.D.
MEMBER OF
THE HISPANIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA
VOLUME II
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NEW HAVEN: PUBLISHED FOR
THE HISPANIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA BY THE
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
LONDON·HUMPHREY MILFORD·OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
MDCCCCXXI
COPYRIGHT, 1921, BY
THE HISPANIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA
Rembrandt’s Philosophers.
Rembrandt’s Philosophers.

Table of Contents
PAGE
List of Illustrations
vii
Chapter X: Globes and Globe Makers of
the Early Seventeenth Century. The
Dutch Scientific Masters and Their
Preëminent Leadership.
1
The shifting of globe
making
interest
to
the
northwest
of
Europe at the close
of
the
sixteenth
century.—The
Van
Langrens as leaders.—
Jodocus Hondius and
his
son
Henricus.—
Willem Jansz. Blaeu
and his sons, John
and
Cornelius.—The
Ferreri
armillary
sphere.—Globes
of
Peter Plancius.—Isaac
Habrecht.—Globes
of
Mattheus Greuter and
their reproduction by
Rossi.—Manfredus
Settàla.—Abraham
Goos.—Adam Heroldt.
Chapter XI: Globes of the Second Half
of the Seventeenth Century
72

Certain
striking
tendencies exhibited
in
the
matter
of
globe making in this
period.—The
Gottorp
globes.—Weigel’s
globes.—Carlo Benci.—
Amantius Moroncelli.—
Castlemaine’s
immovable globe.—The
armillary
of
Treffler.—Armillary
sphere
of
Gian
Battista Alberti.—The
numerous globes of P.
Vincenzo Coronelli.—
Certain
anonymous
globes of the period.
—Johannes Maccarius.—
Jos. Antonius Volpes.
—Vitale
Giordani.—
George
Christopher
Eimmart.—Giuseppe
Scarabelli.—Giovanni
Battista.—Joseph
Moxon.—The
Chinese
globes of Peking.
Chapter XII: Globes and Globe Makers
of
the
First
Half
of
the
Eighteenth Century—from Delisle to
Ferguson
137

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