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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

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

Table of Contents

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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

Activities of Guillaume Delisle.--Jean Dominique Cassini
and his reforms.--Vincenzo Miot.--The globes of Gerhard
and Leonhard Valk.--Activities of John Senex.--Nicolas
Bion.--The armillary sphere of Carmelo Cartilia.--Mattheus
Seutter of Augsburg.--Robert Morden.--Jean Antoine
Nollet.--Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr of
Nürnberg.--Terrestrial globe of Cusani.--Terrestrial
globes of Siena.--The work of the monk Pietro Maria da
Vinchio.--James Ferguson of Scotland.

Chapter XIII: Globes and Globe Makers of the Second
Half of the Eighteenth Century 175

Few globe makers of striking distinction in this
period.--An apparent decrease in scientific interest in
globes, but an apparent increase in popular
interest.--Gilles and Didier Robert de Vaugondy.--The work
of Desnos.--Globes of Gian Francesco Costa the
Venetian.--Globes of Akerman and Akrel.--The French globe
makers Rigobert Bonne and Lalande.--Charles Messier and
Jean Fortin.--Globes of George Adams the Elder, of George
Adams the Younger, and of Dudley Adams.--Small globes of
Nathaniel Hill.--The work of Innocente Alessandri and
Pietro Scaltaglia.--Charles Francis
Delamarche.--Manuscript globes of Vincenzo
Rosa.--Geographer and globe maker Giovanni Maria
Cassini.--Globes of William Cary.