The Most Magnificent and Largest Globes of Blaeu, the World's Greatest Globe Maker /
The Most Magnificent and Largest Globes of Blaeu, the World's Greatest Globe Maker /
edited byPeter C.J. van der Krogt.
- 1 online resource.
- Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495 .
- Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Matching pair of terrestrial and celestial globes, with a diameter of 26 inches (68 cm), with text in Latin. The terrestial globe is composed of 36 half gores and two polar calottes; the celestial globe of 24 ecliptical gores. The gores are pasted on a plaster sphere rotating on brass pinions within a brass meridian ring incised with a graduated scale. Each globe is set into a matching seventeenth-century Dutch wooden base with a small wooden compass-box mounted on the base-plate and with the horizon ring covered scales, almanac and calendar, etc.., engraved on paper and handcoloured as originally issued. Salescatalogue.
9789004507531 9789061946205
10.1163/9789004507531 DOI
Cartography.
Globes.
GA9
526
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Matching pair of terrestrial and celestial globes, with a diameter of 26 inches (68 cm), with text in Latin. The terrestial globe is composed of 36 half gores and two polar calottes; the celestial globe of 24 ecliptical gores. The gores are pasted on a plaster sphere rotating on brass pinions within a brass meridian ring incised with a graduated scale. Each globe is set into a matching seventeenth-century Dutch wooden base with a small wooden compass-box mounted on the base-plate and with the horizon ring covered scales, almanac and calendar, etc.., engraved on paper and handcoloured as originally issued. Salescatalogue.
9789004507531 9789061946205
10.1163/9789004507531 DOI
Cartography.
Globes.
GA9
526