Terrestrial and Celestial Globes Volume 1 Their History and Construction Including a Consideration of their Value as Aids in the Study of Geography and Astronomy

Globes indicating (a) an Asiatic connection of the New World, (b) globes expressing a doubt of such Old World connection, (c) globes showing an independent position of the New W...

Brief summary of sixteenth-century globe making.--The close of the century introducing us to the great Dutch globe makers.--The clock maker Dasypodius.--Peter and Philip Apianus...

Summary of fifteenth century globe characteristics.--Increasing interest in globes.--Globes of Pope Julius II.--Friar Marco da Benevento.--Importance of the Rosselli family of F...

on a wooden base.[308] On the equatorial circle of the smallest sphere is engraved "Deferens Augiem," on the next, "Deferens Epiciculum," on the third, "Deferens Augiem," on the...

The beginnings of astronomical and of geographical science.--Primitive attempts at map construction, as seen in the Babylonian plan of the world.--Anaximander probably the first...

Thales' ideas, probably not a globe maker.--Eudoxus.--The Atlante Farnese.--Archimedes.--Allusion of Lactantius.--Pappus' allusions.--Armillary spheres.--The astronomer Hipparch...

General attitude of the period toward the theories of the Greeks and the Romans.--Scripture statements as sources of information.--Inclination of certain early writers to accept...

Increasing interest in geographical discovery and maritime enterprise in the fourteenth and the fifteenth century.--Awakened interest in globe construction.--Martin Behaim and h...

Revival of interest in globe making in Italy.--François De Mongenet of France and the reprint of his globe maps in Italy.--Gore map of Antonius Florianus.--Globe records left by...

Followers of Ptolemy.--Early armillary spheres.--Interest of the Califs in globes and astronomical instruments.--The record of the 'Fihrist.'--Ibrahim.--Caissar.--Mohammed ben H...

Hitherto there has not appeared in English a detailed historical treatise on globes terrestrial and celestial. The publications are somewhat numerous, it is true, in which a ver...

Johannes Schöner. Innsbruck, 1881; Gallois, L. Les Géographes allemands de la renaissance. Paris, 1890. Chap. iii; Ravenstein, E. G. Martin Behaim, His Life and His Globe. Londo...

Revival of interest in globe making in Italy.--François De Mongenet of France and the reprint of his globe maps in Italy.--Gore map of Antonius Florianus.--Globe records left by...

General attitude of the period toward the theories of the Greeks and the Romans.--Scripture statements as sources of information.--Inclination of certain early writers to accept...

Brief summary of sixteenth-century globe making.--The close of the century introducing us to the great Dutch globe makers.--The clock maker Dasypodius.--Peter and Philip Apianus...

Globes indicating (a) an Asiatic connection of the New World, (b) globes expressing a doubt of such Old World connection, (c) globes showing an independent position of the New W...

The beginnings of astronomical and of geographical science.--Primitive attempts at map construction, as seen in the Babylonian plan of the world.--Anaximander probably the first...

Summary of fifteenth century globe characteristics.--Increasing interest in globes.--Globes of Pope Julius II.--Friar Marco da Benevento.--Importance of the Rosselli family of F...

Increasing interest in geographical discovery and maritime enterprise in the fourteenth and the fifteenth century.--Awakened interest in globe construction.--Martin Behaim and h...

Thales' ideas, probably not a globe maker.--Eudoxus.--The Atlante Farnese.--Archimedes.--Allusion of Lactantius.--Pappus' allusions.--Armillary spheres.--The astronomer Hipparch...

Followers of Ptolemy.--Early armillary spheres.--Interest of the Califs in globes and astronomical instruments.--The record of the 'Fihrist.'--Ibrahim.--Caissar.--Mohammed ben H...