TY  - BOOK
AU  - Krogt,Peter C.J.van der
TI  - The Most Magnificent and Largest Globes of Blaeu, the World's Greatest Globe Maker
T2  - Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
SN  - 9789004507531
AV  - GA9 
U1  - 526 23
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Leiden; , Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Cartography
KW  - Globes
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004507531
ER  -