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

by Edward Luther Stevenson

General Index

IT will be noted that a threefold index has been made for this work. The first part is the “Bibliographical List,” containing in alphabetical order the names of the authors cited, together with the titles of their respective works. The second part is the “List of Globes and Globe Makers,” which should be consulted especially for detailed biographical and descriptive references. In this third part, or “General Index,” reference has been made to a very considerable number of special items more or less fully touched upon in the foregoing pages, with particular reference to the several libraries, museums, and private collections in which globes may be found, the same being given under the name of the locality, as Florence, London, Nürnberg, Paris, Rome, with the name of the particular globe maker whose work is possessed given in brackets.

• Academy of Sciences, Berlin, II, [183]
• Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, II, [183]
• Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, II, [180]
• Acciaioli, Zenobio, notes that Barnaba Canti possessed a globe, I, [65]
• Acton, Admiral William, obtains two early globes from Count Piloni, I, [79]-81
• Africa, interior of, well represented on Coronelli globes, II, [103]
• Albertus Magnus, belief in a spherical earth, I, [43]
• Alessandria, Municipal Library (Biblioteca Municipale), II, [168] (Maria)
• Alfonso X (The Wise), orders the preparation of a great astronomical work, I, [40];
  • reference to globe making and to material for use in globe construction, [40], [41]
• Alvares, Sebastian, refers to a Reynell globe, I, [82]
• America, early names given to, I, [74];
  • location of name on Jagellonicus globe of 1510, [74], [75];
  • the name on Schöner globe of 1515, [84], [85];
  • appears four times on Green globe of 1515, [77];
  • its relation to Asia, [88], [94]-96;
  • indicated as a separate continent on practically all maps of first quarter of sixteenth century, [95];
  • an Asiatic connection indicated after 1525, [109], [110], [124];
  • Mercator’s representation and his influence, [126];
  • summary of the views relative to Asiatic connection, [172], [173]
• Amsterdam, Royal Geographical Society (Kon. Nederl. Aardrijkskundig Genootschap), I, [208] (Van Langren).
  • Frederick Muller, II, [27] (Blaeu); [259] (Deur); [271] (Valk).
  • Private collection, II, [271] (Valk)
• [277]
• Anaximander, called the first scientific cartographer, I, [3]
• Ancona, Communal School (Scuole Comunale), II, [59] (Greuter); [192] (Cassini).
  • Private Library, [61] (Greuter)
• Anson, George, navigator, II, [169]
• Antilia, laid down on Behaim globe, I, [50]
• Antipodes, belief in existence of, I, [8], 13, n. [26]
• Antoecians, referred to by Crates, I, [8]
• Antwerp, Plantin-Moritus Museum, I, [211] (Van Langren).
  • Stein Museum, II, [50] (Plancius)
• Aquila, Provincial Library (Biblioteca provinciale), II, [44] (Blaeu)
• Aquinas, Thomas, belief in a spherical earth, I, [43]
• Arabic astronomers, as globe makers, I, [28]
• Arabs, probably did not construct terrestrial globes, I, [26];
  • constructed celestial globes, [27];
  • their interest in astronomy, [27];
  • their names and figures of the constellations, [27]
• Aratus, astronomical poem of, I, [15], 23, n. [32];
  • ideas followed by Leontius, [22]
• Archimedes, I, [15];
  • his globe or instrument for representing the movement of heavenly bodies, [15], [16], [17]
• Argonauti, Accademia Cosmografo degli, first modern geographical society, founded by Coronelli, 1680, II, [98]
• Aristotle, his scientific basis for belief in a spherical earth, I, [6], 12, n. [21]
• Armillary, earliest form, I, [18];
  • its development and system of circles, [19]
• Arpino, Liceum, II, [192] (Cassini)
• Asimino or tausia, a style employed in metal globe making, I, [153]
• Asti, Communal Library (Biblioteca Comunale), II, [53] (Habrecht)
• Astrolabe, earliest form, I, [18], II, [197];
  • its construction and use according to Ptolemy, I, [19]
• Atlantic Islands, mythical, retained by Mercator, I, [210];
  • by Blaeu, II, [31]
• Austral continent, on Green globe, 1515, I, [76];
  • on Mercator globe, and reasons for believing in its existence, [130];
  • on Spano and Hondius globes, [204], II, [148];
  • compare its representation on various globes
• Aversa, Episcopal Seminary (Seminario Vescovile), II, [114] (Coronelli)
• Baba, Andrea, secretary of the Argonauti, II, [102]
• Bacon, Roger, belief in a spherical earth, I, [43]
• Baldelli, Abbot Onofri, presented a Moroncelli globe to Academy of
• • Cortona, II, [88]
• Basel, Museum des Cordeliers, I, [201] (Gessner)
• Bassano, Communal Library (BibliotecaComunale), II, [60] (Greuter).
  • Tipografia Roberto, II, [189] (Scaltaglia); [190] (Viani)
• Bede, the Venerable, belief in a spherical earth, I, [37], [38]
• Behaim, Martin, maker of oldest extant terrestrial globe, I, [47];
  • certain of his globe legends cited, [49]-51;
  • encourages globe construction in Nürnberg, [51];
  • statement of expenses for the construction of his globe, 56, n. [104]
• Belluno, Library Count Piloni, I, [150] (De Mongenet); II, [59] (Greuter)
• Benevento, Episcopal Library (Biblioteca Vescovile), II, [63] (Greuter)
• Benevento, Friar Marco da, refers to globes in his edition of Ptolemy, 1507, I, [64]
• Bergamo, City Library (Biblioteca Civico), II, [111] (Coronelli); [124] (Eimmart)
• Bering, Vitus, reference to his discovery by Desnos, II, [178]
• [278] Bern, Library Sr. Frey, I, [116] (Vopel)
• Bernard, William, explorer, II, [38], [40]
• Bertius, Petrus, noted geographer and friend of Hondius, II, [3]
• Bion, Nicolas, reform in globe construction, II, [153]
• Blaeu, Willem Jansz., appointed official map maker, II, [21];
  • variations in his signature, [23];
  • relations with Tycho Brahe, [19]-21;
  • refers to the new star discovered in 1600, [30]
• Bollert, Roland, patron of Franciscus Monachus, I, [97]
• Bologna, Astronomical Observatory (Osservatorio Astronomico), II, [43] (Blaeu).
  • Physics Museum (Museo di Fisica), II, [150] (Valk).
  • University Library (Biblioteca Universitario), II, [180] (Rosini).
  • Communal Library (Biblioteca Comunale), II, [59] (Greuter); [114] (Coronelli).
  • State Archives (Archivo di Stato), II, [114] (Coronelli).
  • Convent Osservanza (Convento dell’ Osservanza), II, [114] (Coronelli).
  • Malvezzi Library (Archivio Malvezzi), II, [153] (Bion).
  • Library General Gandolfi, II, [59] (Greuter).
  • Library Professor Liuzzi, II, [114] (Coronelli).
  • Library Bottrigari, II, [189] (Scaltaglia).
  • Library Bortognoni, II, [190] (Viani)
• Boncompagni, Jocopo, member of famous Bolognese family, to him Greuter dedicates his globe of 1632, II, [55]
• Borgonone, Francesco Mongonetto, referred to as publisher of a globe, I, [149]
• Boscoreale, globe fresco, I, [21]
• Brabant, Hondius dedicates a globe to Albert and Isabella of, II, [9]
• Brahe, George, uncle and teacher of Tycho Brahe, I, [183]
• Brahe, Tycho, astronomical observations followed by Hondius, II, [7], [9], [12], [21];
  • by Blaeu, [25], [26], [29], [33], [49];
  • by Plancius, [49];
  • by Greuter, [58], [61], [64];
  • by Moroncelli, [85], [93]; reference to his remarkable star discovered in 1572, [8], [18], [64], [67], [89]
• Brescia, Quirinal Library, II, [18] (Hondius).
  • Library Count Fenaroli, II, [159] (Nollet); [190] (Viani).
  • Atheneum, II, [60] (Greuter); [96] (Alberti).
  • Episcopal Seminary (Seminario Vescovile), II, [189] (Scaltaglia)
• Brognoli, receives order for copies of Pope Julius II’s globes, I, [62]
• Brussels, Royal Library, I, [127] (Mercator); II, [114] (Coronelli)
• Bunau, Henricus, possessed a terrestrial globe, I, [67]
• Bürgi, Jost, globe and clock maker, said to have invented the pendulum clock, I, [197]
• Burrow, Stephen, I, [193]
• Button, Thomas, explorer, II, [17]
• Cabot, John, possessed a globe “showing where he landed,” I, [53]
• Cabot, Sebastian, explorer, II, [39]
• Cagli, Communal Library (Biblioteca Comunale), II, [179] (Costa); [189] (Scaltaglia)
• Calif al-Mansur, interested in astronomy, and celestial globes, I, [27];
• • many of his successors likewise interested, [27]
• California, represented as an island by Greuter, II, [62];
  • by Coronelli, [111];
  • by Valk, [147], [148]
• Camarino, Communal Library (Biblioteca Comunale), II, [59] (Greuter)
• Cambridge, Eng., University Library, II, [94] (Castlemaine)
• Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University, I, [152] (Florianus); II, [170] (Ferguson)
• Camerarius, refers to Mercator globes for sale at Frankfort, I, [132]
• Campano, Giovanni, a distinguished mediaeval writer on mathematics and on astronomical subjects, I, [42];
  • [279] his ‘Tractatis de sphera solida,’ [42]
• Candish (Cavendish), Thomas, explorer, II, [37]
• Cano, Sebastian del, reference in his will to a globe, I, [82]
• Canti, Barnaba, possessed a small globe, I, [65]
• Carpi, Cardinal of, possessed a globe, I, [152].
  • Episcopal Seminary (Seminario Vescovile), II, [59] (Greuter)
• Carpini, I, [46]
• Casale Monferrate, Technical Institute (Istituto Tecnico), II, [63] (Greuter).
  • Episcopal Seminary (Seminario Vescovile), II, [166] (Maria)
• Caserta, Royal Library (Biblioteca Reale), II, [177] (Vaugondy)
• Cassel, Royal Museum (Königliches Museum), I, [195] (Molyneux-Sanderson); [196] (Bürgi); II, [30], [44] (Blaeu); [53] (Habrecht); [126] (Moxon); [140] (Delisle); [150] (Valk); [249] (Andrea); [250] (Anonymous); [252] (Beyer); [268] (Muth Brothers); [273] (Weigel); [273] (Wellington)
• Cassini, Jean Dominique, reforms globe making, II, [141];
  • his discoveries in the field of astronomy, [141]
• Catania, Physics Museum (Museo di Fisica), II, [60] (Greuter)
• Celtes, Conrad, made use of globes in geographical and astronomical instruction, I, [54], [55]
• Cesena, Maletesta Library (Biblioteca Maletesta), II, [192] (Cassini)
• Céspedes, Garcia de, reference to small globe, II, [53]
• Chancellor, Richard, explorer, I, [193]
• Château Marly, Coronelli’s large globe constructed for Louis XIV placed in, II, [99]
• Chieri, Convent of Mission Brothers (Frati della Missione), II, [184] (Fortin); [258] (Delamarche)
• Chignolo, Cusani Palace, II, [163] (Anonymous)
• Cicero, allusion to Archimedes’ globe, I, [15], [16]
• Claudio de la Baume, to him De Mongenet dedicates his terrestrial globe, I, [149]
• Clement X, Pope, Benci dedicates to him his globe of 1671, II, [80]
• Clermont, Count of, Nollet dedicates to him his celestial globe of 1730, II, [158]
• Cleveland, Western Reserve Historical Society, II, [255] (Cary)
• Clocks, globes as a part of, I, 57, n. [110]
• Cockrill, Thomas, II, [156]
• Colbert, Jean Baptiste, proposes Cassini for the Chair of Astronomy in Collège de France, II, [141]
• College of Navarre, II, [157]
• Cologne, City Archives, I, [113] (Vopel)
• Colorado River, referred to by Adams as flowing directly westward into the Pacific, II, [186]
• Columbus, Bartholomew, sketch maps showing Asiatic connection of the New World, I, [95]
• Columbus, Christopher, his place in the history of terrestrial globes, I, [52];
  • interested in globes if not a maker of them, [52], [53];
  • said to have sent their Catholic Majesties a globe, [53]
• Como, Communal Library (Biblioteca Comunale), II, [44] (Blaeu)
• Compass, variations referred to, II, [10], [17]
• Constance, Liceum Library, I, [53] (Stöffler)
• Constellations, antiquity of star grouping, I, [1];
  • Eudoxus’ part in fixing names of, [15];
  • Aratus’ contribution, [15];
  • Ptolemy’s names of constellations, 24, n. [14];
  • proposals of Bede, Bayer, Schiller, Weigel, Moroncelli (see reference to each);
  • those of the Antarctic, II, [108]; 133, n. [69]
• Cook, Captain, referred to by Viani, II, [189];
  • by Cassini, [192]
• Copenhagen, National Museum, [280] I, [114] (Vopel); II, [74] (Gottorp); [75] (Theodorus)
• Corfu, Archbishop of, possessed a globe, I, [152]
• Coronelli, Vincenzo Maria, given title _Cosmografo della Serenissima Republica_, II, [98]
• Correggio, Communal Library (Biblioteca Comunale), II, [184] (Fortin)
• Cortereal, Miguel and Gaspar, explorers, II, [39]
• Cortona, Etruscan Academy (Accademia Etrusca), II, [88] (Moroncelli); [92], [93] (Moroncelli)
• Cosimo de’ Medici, interested in maps and globes, I, [159]
• Cosmas Indicopleustes, opposed the doctrine of a spherical earth, I, [36]
• Cracow, Jagellonicus Library, I, [74] (Jagellonicus)
• Crates, reputed the first to construct a globe, I, [7];
  • his idea concerning the earth’s surface, [8];
  • referred to by Strabo, [8]
• Cremona, Governmental Library (Biblioteca Governativo), I, [133] (Mercator)
• Crevalcuore, Communal Library (Biblioteca Comunale), II, [192] (Cassini)
• Cusani, Cardinal Agostino, II, [163]
• Dalberg, Bishop of Worms, receives a globe from Johann Stöffler, I, [54]
• Dante, belief in a spherical earth, I, [43]
• Danti, Ignazio, called by Duke Cosimo to Florence to decorate his palace, I, [158];
• • his work described by Vasari, [159]-162
• Dasypodius, Petrus, father of Conrad Dasypodius, I, [173]
• Da Vinci, Leonardo, peculiarities of his globe gores, II, [205]
• Davis, John, explorer, II, [38], [51], [63]
• Delisle, Claude, father of Guillaume, II, [138]
• Diaz, Bartholomew, turns the Cape of Good Hope, I, [46]
• Dicaearchus, introduces place orientation on the map, I, [4]
• Dijon, College of Dijon, II, [266] (Legrand)
• Doppelmayr, Johann Gabriel, II, [159]-162;
  • portraits of famous explorers, [161];
  • marks the course of famous explorers, [162]
• Drake, Francis, explorer, II, [37], [40]
• Draper, Mrs. Henry, presents Nathan Hill globe to New York Public Library, II, [188]
• Dresden, Math. Phys. Salon (Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon), I, [30] (Mohammed ben Muwajed el Ordhi); [156] (Heyden); [158] (Praetorius); [181] (Roll and Reinhold); [215] (B. F.); II, [44] (Blaeu); [111] (Coronelli); [150] (Valk); [162] (Doppelmayr); [162] (Puschner)
• Dürer, Albrecht, on globe-gore construction, II, [202], [203]
• Ecliptic Mounting, II, [145]
• Edrisi, famous Arabic geographer, I, [27];
• • references to so-called globe of King Roger, [27];
  • comments on the earth as a sphere, 33, n. [51]
• Egedian Gymnasium, Nürnberg, II, [159]
• Equatorial mounting, II, [145]
• Eratosthenes, represents curved surface of the earth on a plane, I, [5];
  • his measurement of the earth, [5];
  • idea concerning a spherical earth, [7];
  • probably made use of an armillary sphere, [18]
• Escorial, possessed at one time an Apianus globe, I, [176]
• Este Family of Ferrara, interest in geographical discovery, I, [61], [62]
• Estrées, Cardinal d’, induces Coronelli to construct a large globe for Louis XIV, II, [99]
• Eudoxus, I, [14]; made use of celestial globe, [15]
• Fabriano, Agabiti Museum (Museo Agabiti), II, [59] (Greuter).
• • Communal Library (Biblioteca Comunale), II, [59] (Greuter)
• [281]Faenza, Communal Library (Biblioteca Comunale), II, [111] (Coronelli)
• Faletti, Giacomo, purchases a globe from Cardinal Bembo, I, [120]
• Fano, Communal Library (Biblioteca Comunale), II, [27] (Blaeu); 111 (Coronelli)
• Fermo, Communal Library (Biblioteca Comunale), II, [86] (Moroncelli)
  • Ferrara, Communal Library (Biblioteca Comunale), II, [59] (Greuter).
  • Dukes of, their interest in geographical discovery, I, [61], [62]
• Ferrero, Cardinal Gian Stefano, presents a globe to Pope Julius II, I, [63]
• Fickler, his inventory including globes in library of Munich, I, [177]
• Finale, Episcopal Seminary (Seminario Vescovile), II, [118] (Coronelli)
• Fischer, Professor Joseph S. J., discovers copy of Waldseemüller map 1507, and publishes same in facsimile, I, [67], [69];
  • cited, [199], [200];
  • co-editor with E. L. Stevenson of Jodocus Hondius world map of 1611, II, [67]
• Flamsteed, John, English astronomer, II, [179]
• Florence, Museum of Ancient Instruments (Museo di Strumenti Antichi), I, [28] (Ibrahim); [155] (Volpaja); [162] (Danti); [168] (Cartaro); [180] (Platus); [213] (Santucci); II, [4]4 (Blaeu); [114] (Coronelli); [140] (Delisle); [165] (Torricelli).
  • Library Jodoco del Badia, I, [115] (Vopel).
  • Library Marquis Bargagli, II, [118] (Coronelli).
  • Laurentian Library (Biblioteca Laurentiana), I, [166] (Anonymous).
  • Library Sr. Lessi, II, [14] (Hondius-Rossi); 45 (Lud. Sem.).
  • Library Professor Giovanni Marinelli, I, [152] (Florianus).
  • Marucellian Library (Biblioteca Marucelliana), II, [118] (Coronelli).
  • National Library (Biblioteca Nazionale), I, [166] (Anonymous); II, [118] (Coronelli).
  • Library Santa Maria Nuova, II, [59] (Greuter).
  • Astronomical Observatory (Osservatorio Astronomico), II, [41] (Blaeu).
  • Technical Institute (Istituto Tecnico), II, [44] (Blaeu); [63] (Greuter); [153] (Bion)
• Florianus, Antonius, peculiarities of his globe gores, II, [207]
• Franciscus Monachus, his hemispheres, I, [96]
• Frankfurt, City Historical Museum, I, [82] (Schöner); II, [140] (Andreae); [265] (Klinger); [272] (Van Langren). Joseph Baer, II, [263] (Greuter)
• Frederick II of Denmark, patron of Tycho Brahe, I, [184]
• Frederick, Duke of Holstein, Gottorp globe constructed for, II, [73], [74]
• Frederick II of Sicily, directs the construction of a celestial globe of gold, I, [39];
  • his astronomical tent, [40]
• Frobisher (Forbisher), Martin, explorer, II, [38], [39], [63]
• Fugger, Raymond, Augsburg patrician and patron, I, [110], [111]
• Gallus, C. Sulpicius, describes a globe, I, [15], [16]
• Gemma Frisius, his relations to Mercator, I, [103], [104], [105]
• Geneva, Musée Ariana, I, [201] (small globe)
• Genga, Library Sr. Luigi Belli, II, [60] (Greuter)
• Genoa, Mission Brothers (Frati della Missione), II, [44] (Blaeu).
• • City Museum (Museo Civico), II, [114] (Coronelli).
  • Franzoniana Library (Biblioteca Franzoniana), II, [118] (Coronelli)
• Geography of the Ancients, works cited treating of, I, 11, n. [4]
• Gerbert (Pope Sylvester II), made use of celestial globes and [282] armillary spheres, I, [38], [39];
  • his purpose to construct a globe, [39]
• Germanus, Donnus Nicolas, his map projection, II, [201]
• Germany as a center for the spread of information concerning the New World, I, [67]
• Ghent, University Library, I, [210] (Van Langren); II, [144] (Valk)
• Gimma, Abbot, reference to Coronelli globes, II, [119]
• Glareanus, Henricus, proposals for globe-gore construction, II, [204], [205]
• Globe-goblets, interest in their construction in second half of sixteenth century, I, [198];
  • examples of, [199]-201
• Globes, definition by Leontius, I, [23];
  • materials entering into the construction of, [15], [40], [41], 56, n. [102], [59], [60], [133], [201];
  • used for decorative purposes, [60], [61], [154], [199];
  • importance of globe legends (see the many citations);
  • globe clocks, [173]-175, [197], [216];
  • globe gores, their use in globe construction, [60];
  • praised by Ruscelli, [155], [204]-207;
  • globe making in sixteenth century, general summary, [172], [173];
  • used by navigators, II, [1],
  • shifting of interest in, [1];
  • striking tendencies in their construction in second half of seventeenth century, [72], [73] (Gottorp), [77] (Coronelli), [99], [104], [141];
  • relative position of stars and constellations as represented on celestial globes, [209]-211;
  • uses and value as expressed by Joseph Moxon, [125];
  • moon globes, [215]-217
• Glockenthon, draughtsman of map on Behaim’s globe, I, [48]
• Gnomon, its construction and use, I, [18]
• Gonzaga, Curtio, constructs a large globe, I, [154]
• Göttingen, Library Dr. Baumgärtner, II, [26], [27] (Blaeu).
  • Geographical Institute, II, [162] (Doppelmayr); [180] (Akerman).
  • University Library, II, [162] (Puschner)
• Gottorp globe, striking peculiarities of, II, [73], [74]
• Gran Casa del Frari, center of Coronelli’s activities, II, [98]
• Greeks, reduced map making to a real science, I, [3];
  • survival of their ideas of a spherical earth during middle ages, [35]
• Greuter, Mattheus, copied much from Blaeu, II, [57]
• Groland, Nikolaus, a patron of Behaim in the construction of his globe, I, [48]
• Grotta, Ferrata, Badia of Santa Maria, II, [63] (Greuter)
• Grüniger, Johann, printer of Strassburg, I, [71], [72]
• Guastalla, Maldotti Library, II, [159] (Nollet)
• Gubbio, Communal Library (Biblioteca Comunale), II, [59] (Greuter)
• Gustavus II, King of Sweden, Blaeu dedicated to him his globe of 1622, II, [42]
• Habrecht, Isaac and Josias, globe and clock makers of Schaffhausen, I, [174]
• Hainzel, Johan and Paul, assisted Tycho Brahe in globe construction, I, [184]
• Hakluyt, allusion to a globe at Westminster, I, [98]
• Hartford, Library Mrs. C. L. F. Robinson, II, [254] (Bonne)
• Hartmann, George, his the earliest example of engraved celestial globe gores, 1535, I, [117]
• Hecataeus, I, [4]
• Heelmstrech, Jacob, explorer, II, [40]
• Henry the Navigator, his leadership in maritime enterprise, I, [46]
• Hercules I, Duke of Ferrara, I, [62]
• Heriot, Thomas, explorer, I, [210]
• Herlin, Christian, friend and teacher of Conrad Dasypodius, I, [174]; on the commission to restore the Strassburg clock, [174]
• Herodotus, quoted, I, [4]
• Hevelius, Johannes, star maps used [283]by Eimmart, II, [124];
• • by Valk, [145], [149], [209]
• Hipparchus, great astronomer, I, [5];
  • improved the gnomon, [18];
  • constructed a celestial globe, [19]
• Holzschuher, George, member of Nürnberg City Council, I, [47];
  • supervises the construction of Behaim globe, [48]
• Homann, Johann Baptista, named Imperial Geographer, II, [155]
• Homer, said to have considered the form of the earth as that of a circular disc, I, [4]
• Hondius, Jodocus, refers to the superiority of his globes, I, [208]
• Hondt (Hondius), Oliver de, father of Jodocus Hondius, II, [2]
• Houtmann, Frederick, astronomical observations of, followed by Van Langren, I, [211]; by Hondius, II, [12]; by Blaeu, [26], [29], [67]; by Coronelli, [108]
• Hudson, Henry, reference to his discoveries, II, [15], [17], [39], [40], [63]
• Hulagu Khan, I, [28]; his observatory at Maragha, [28]
• Hunt, Richard, once owner of Lenox globe, I, [73]
• Hveen, island given to Tycho Brahe, where he erected his observatory Uranienburg, I, [184]
• Imola, Communal Library (Biblioteca Comunale), II, [63] (Greuter); [164] (Anonymous)
• Ionic school of philosophers, I, [14]
• Isabel of Este, I, [62]
• Italians, favorable to manuscript globes, II, [200]
• Italy, its people increasingly interested in maritime exploration in fourteenth and fifteenth century, I, [46]
• Ivrea, Episcopal Seminary (Seminario Vescovile), II, [164] (Anonymous); [263] (Greuter)
• James, Thomas, explorer, II, [17]
• Jomard, E. F., obtains an Arabic globe in Egypt, I, [31]
• Julius I (Pope), globe belonging to, I, [62]
• Kahira, Public Library, I, [28] (Ptolemy)
• Kepler, Johann, reference to Apianus globe, I, [177]
• Ko-Shun-King, Chinese astronomer and globe maker, II, [129]
• Kúblai Kaan, interested in globe making, II, [128]
• Lactantius, allusion to Archimedes’ globe, I, [17]
• Laon, City Library, I, [51] (Laon globe)
• Latitude and longitude, methods of determining, II, [141], [142], 171, n. [128]
• Lattré, map engraver, II, [182]
• Leiden, University Library, II, [27] (Blaeu); [66] (Janssonius). Bodel Nyenhuis, II, [252] (Belga)
• Leipzig, Karl Hiersemann, II, [254] (Bühler); [257] (Coronelli); [258] (Delamarche); [260] (Ferguson); [265] (Klinger); [270] (Senex)
• Le Maire, Jacob, explorer, II, [31], [32], [38], [46], [51], [63]
• Leontius Mechanicus, I, [21]; a maker of globes and writer on globe construction, [22], [23]
• Leowitz, Cyprian, I, [184]
• Libri, Francesco, globe maker, I, [100]
• Liechtenstein, Prince of, his globe gore maps, I, [71], [75]
• Linschoten, John Hugo, explorer, II, [38], [39], [46]
• Loano, Library Lorenzo Novella, II, [194] (Cary)
• London, British Museum, I, [150] (De Mongenet); [150] (Florianus); II, [31], [44] (Blaeu); [114], [119] (Coronelli); [152] (Senex); [156] (Morden); [183] (Lane); [185] (Adams); [177] (Hill); [194] (Cary); [250] (Anonymous).
• • Royal Asiatic Society, I, [29] (Mohammed ben Helal).
  • Middle Temple, I, [190] (Molyneux).
  • Library S. J. Phillips, I, [218] (Gessner).
  • Library Sir A. W. Franks, II, [250] (Anonymous)
• [284] London Company, its territorial jurisdiction represented on Hondius world map, 1611, II, [41], 70, n. [44].
• Longitude, on efforts to determine referred to, II, [10], [36], 68, n.[9], [139]
• Longomontanus (Severin), pupil of Tycho Brahe, I, [184]
• Louis XIV, Coronelli dedicates to him his great globe, II, [100], [101]
• Loxodrome (Rhumb) lines,
  • represented by Mercator, I, [128];
    • by Hondius, II, [7];
    • by Blaeu, [28], [35];
    • by Habrecht, [52];
  • their purpose and their representation, [208], [209]
• Lucca, Library Sr. Giannini, II, [8] (Hondius).
  • Governmental Library (Biblioteca Governativo), II, [59] (Greuter); [44] (Blaeu); [177] (Vaugondy).
  • Machiavellian Liceum, II, [184] (Messier)
• Macerata, Episcopal Seminary (Seminario Vescovile), II, [61] (Greuter).
• • Communal Library (Biblioteca Comunale), II, [156] (Seutter).
  • Library Vittorio Bianchini, II, [194] (Cary)
• Madrid, Royal Library (Biblioteca Real), II, [152] (Senex); [119] (Coronelli); [141] (Delisle); [186] (Adams); [253] (Blaeu)
• Magellan, Ferdinand, demonstrates his plan by use of a globe, I, [81];
  • influence of his voyage on idea of American-Asiatic connection, [96], [109], [110]
• Maine, Duchesse of, Nollet dedicates to her his terrestrial globe of 1728, II, [158]
• Maiollo, Vesconte de, map of 1527, I, [105]
• Malcolm, Sir John, presents Arabic globe to Asiatic Society, I, [29]
• Mandeville, Sir John, I, [193]
• Manhattan, oldest dated map reference to as an island on Blaeu globe, 1622, II, [41]
• Mantua, Gonzaga Library, II, [59] (Greuter); [111] (Coronelli)
• Map making, reform in, II, [137], [138], [139], [151], 171, n. [121]
• Maps, early Egyptian, I, [2];
  • early Babylonian, [3]
• Marinus, introduces idea of inscribing on a map lines of latitude and longitude, I, [5]
• Matelica, Private Library, II, [262] (Greuter)
• Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange,
  • Hondius honors with a globe dedication, II, [5];
  • Blaeu dedicates a globe to him, [25]
• Maxwell, John, issued atlas with John Senex, II, [151]
• Mela, Pomponius, geographer and map maker, I, [5]
• Mellinus, Paulus, Rossi dedicates to him a globe, II, [14]
• Mercator, Gerhard,
  • his important maps of 1538, I, [125];
    • of 1554, of 1564, of 1569, [126];
  • peculiarities of his globe gores, [128]; reasons for his belief in an austral continent, [130]
• Meridian, Prime,
  • its location and efforts to determine same, by Hondius, II, [11]; by Blaeu, [36], [37]; by Plancius, [48], [52]; by Greuter, [57]; by Moroncelli, [89]; by Coronelli, [110];
  • Coronelli cites Eratosthenes, Marinus, Ptolemy, Aboulfeda, Alfonso, Pigafetta, Herrera, Copernicus, Reinhold, Kepler, Longomontanus, Lansberg, Ricciola, Janssonius;
  • by Moxon, [127]; by Nollet, [158]
• Messina, University Library (Biblioteca Universitario), II, [59] (Greuter)
• Middle Ages,
  • lack of interest in fundamental principles of geographical and astronomical science, I, [35];
  • attitude toward the Bible as the true source of geographical knowledge, [36];
  • survival of Aristotelian doctrine of a spherical earth, [36];
  • theories did not call for an interest in globes, [36], [37]
• Milan, Ambrosiana Library (Biblioteca [285]Ambrosiana), I, [135] (Gianelli); II, [65] (Settàla), [66] (Anonymous).
  • National Library (Biblioteca Nazionale), II, [59] (Greuter); [190] (Delamarche).
  • Municipal Museum (Museo Municipale), II, [9] (Hondius).
  • Astronomical Observatory (Osservatorio Astronomico), II, [114] (Coronelli), [180] (Akerman).
  • Library Prince Trivulzio, I, [150] (De Mongenet).
• Modena, City Museum (Museo Civico), II, [59] (Greuter), [97] (Anonymous); [254] (Borsari).
  • Royal Estense Library, II, [43] (Blaeu).
  • Library Sr. Remigio Salotti, II, [118] (Coronelli)
• Monachus, Franciscus, importance attaching to his hemispheres, I, [96], 139, n. [205]
• Monastic schools, geographical and astronomical instruction given therein, I, [38]
• Mondovi, Episcopal Seminary (Seminario Vescovile), II, [159] (Nollet)
• Montanus, Petrus, noted geographer and friend of Hondius, II, [3]
• Morono, Philip Antonio, constructed the mechanical parts of Moroncelli globe, II, [86]
• Müelichs, Johann, said to have adorned the Apianus globe, I, [178]
• Munich, Royal Bavarian Court and State Library (K. B. Hof- und Staats Bibliothek), II, [177] (Anonymous); [178] (Apianus).
  • Ludwig Rosenthal, II, [262] (Greuter)
• Myrica, Caspar, map engraver with Mercator, I, [103], [105]
• Nancy, Lorraine Museum, I, [102] (Nancy globe)
• Naples, National Museum (Museo Nazionale), I, [15] (Atlante Farnese); [29] (Caissar).
• • Astronomical Observatory (Osservatorio Astronomico), I, [182] (Roll and Reinhold); II, [186] (Adams).
  • National Library (Biblioteca Nazionale), II, [44] (Blaeu); [114] (Coronelli).
  • University Library (Biblioteca Universitario), II, [111] (Coronelli)
• New York, Library William R. Hearst, II, [92] (Anonymous).
  • The Hispanic Society of America, II, [14] (Hondius); [30], [44] (Blaeu); [50] (Habrecht); [55], [62] (Greuter); [115] (Coronelli); [144] (Valk); [160] (Doppelmayr); [169] (Ferguson); [170] (Moll); [184] (Fortin); [192] (Anonymous); [214], [216] (Oterschaden)
  • Library New York Historical Society, I, [117] (Ulpius).
  • Library Henry E. Huntington, I, [213] (Santucci?), II, [4] (Hondius).
  • Metropolitan Museum, I, [179] (Emmoser); [201] (Anonymous).
  • Library J. P. Morgan, I, [106] (Bailly); [201] (Spano).
  • New York Public Library, I, [74] (Lenox); [79] (Boulengier); [87] (anonymous gores); [148] (De Mongenet); [152] (Florianus); II, [188] (Hill).
  • Library Mr. Reed, I, [168] (Cartaro).
  • Library Professor David E. Smith, II, [250] (Anonymous).
  • Collection John Wanamaker, II, [251] (Cassini)
• Noort, Oliver van der, explorer, II, [28], [37]
• Northeast passage, referred to, II, [38], [40]
• Northwest passage, referred to, II, [24], [38];
  • important searches for the passage mentioned by Blaeu on globe, 1622, [39]
• Notker Labeo, probably used globes in his monastic school of St. Gallen, I, [38]
• Novara, Charles Albert Liceum, II, [190] (Delamarche)
• Novi, Dorian Liceum, II, [184] (Fortin)
• Nürnberg, German National Museum (Germanisches Nationalmuseum), I, [48] (Behaim); [53] (Stöffler); [86] (Schöner); [148] (De Mongenet); [133] (Mercator); [158] (Praetorius); II, [4], [5] (Hondius); [286][27], [30], [44] (Blaeu); [53] (Habrecht); [118] (Coronelli); [150] (Valk); [160], [162] (Doppelmayr); [251] (Anonymous); [254] (Bode); [255] (Caucigh); [259] (Faber); [264] (Hahn); [264] (Homann); [265] (Jaillot).
  • City Library, II, [43] (Blaeu); [184] (Messier)
• Nutzel, Gabriel, a patron of Behaim in the construction of his globe, I, [48]
• Oberglogau, Library Reichsgraf Hans v. Oppersdorf, II, [43] (Blaeu)
• Oecumene, the, I, [8]
• Osimo, Communal Library (Biblioteca Comunale), II, [263] (Greuter)
• Padua, Antonian Library (Biblioteca Antoniana), II, [114] (Coronelli).
• • Physics Museum (Museo di Fisica), II, [59] (Greuter).
  • Episcopal Seminary (Seminario Vescovile), II, [59] (Greuter);
  • [186] (Adams). Astronomical Observatory (Osservatorio Astronomica), II, [186] (Adams)
• Palermo, Archbishop of, receives a globe from Franciscus Monachus, I, [97]
• Palermo, National Library (Biblioteca Nazionale), II, [114] (Coronelli).
  • Communal Library (Biblioteca Comunale), II, [42] (Blaeu); [63] (Greuter); [171] (Ferguson).
  • Astronomical Observatory (Osservatorio Astronomico), II, [182] (Lalande).
  • Nautical Institute (Istituto Nautico), II, [255] (Cassini); [190] (Delamarche)
• Palestrina, Communal Library (Biblioteca Comunale), II, [263] (Greuter)
• Paliano, Duke of, possessed a globe, I, [152]
• Pappus, defines mechanicians as those who understand globe making, I, [17]
• Parias, Schöner’s explanation of its location, I, [85], [88]
• Paris, Astronomical Observatory, I, [133] (Mercator).
  • National Library (Bibliothèque Nationale), I, [31] (Mohammed Diemat Eddin); [76] (Green globe); [98] (Gilt globe); [105] (Bailly); [106], [107] (Anonymous); [108] (Schiepp); [111] (Wooden globe); [150] (De Mongenet); [210] (Van Langren); II, [100] (Coronelli); [151] (Senex); [187] (Hill); [188] (L’Écuy)
• Parma, Palatin Library (Biblioteca Palatina), II, [59] (Greuter); [178] (Vaugondy).
  • Library Marquis Costerbosa, II, [179] (Desnos).
  • Meteorological Observatory (Osservatorio Meteorologico), II, [184] (Messier)
• Passeriano, Library Count Manin, II, [111] (Messier)
• Pavia, Physics Museum (Museo Fisica), II, [162] (Doppelmayr).
  • University Library (Biblioteca Universitario), II, [192] (Rosa).
  • Foscolo Liceum, II, [192] (Rosa)
• Pescia, Cathedral Library (Biblioteca Capitulare), II, [263] (Greuter)
• Peking, Astronomical Observatory, II, [129] (Anonymous); [129] (Ko-Shun-King); [131] (Verbiest)
• Pergamum, Crates exhibits his globe in, I, [8]
• Perioecians, referred to by Crates, I, [8]
• Perrenot, Nicolás, suggests to Mercator the construction of a globe, I, [127], [129]
• Perugia, Library Count Conestabile, II, [61] (Greuter).
  • Communal Library (Biblioteca Comunale), II, [118] (Coronelli).
  • Cathedral Library (Biblioteca Capitulare), II, [255] (Cassini)
• Peter the Great, receives as present the Gottorp globe, II, [74]
• Petri, Nicolas, issues a manual for the use of Van Langren globes, I, [205]
• Petrius, Cornelius, Blaeu dedicated to him his globe of 1606, II, [30]
• [287] Petrograd, Imperial Library, I, [32] (Ridhwan)
• Piacenza, Library Alberoni College, II, [179] (Desnos)
• Picard, Jean, improves map making, II, [138]
• Piccolomini, Alessandro, refers to globes and globe making, I, [152]
• Piloni, Count, once possessed two globes of early sixteenth century, I, [79]
• Pinzon, Vincente, Yañez, I, [207]
• Pisa, Certosa, II, [257] (Coronelli)
• Piticchio, Library Cav. Giampieri-Carletti, II, [61] (Greuter)
• Plancius, Peter, map and globe maker, II, [46]; his large world map of 1592, [46]
• Pliny, reasons for believing the earth to be a sphere, I, [10]
• “Plus Ultra,” motto of the Argonauti of Venice, II, [98]
• Polo, Marco, I, [46], [206]
• Pontanus, Isaac, refers to globe of Brahe, Danti, and Santucci, I, [163]
• Porcelaga, Zurelio, sends a globe to Roscelli, I, [153]
• Portogruaro, Episcopal Seminary (Seminario Vescovile), II, [18] (Hondius)
• Prato, Library Marquis Gherardi, I, [133] (Mercator)
• Precession of Equinoxes, II, [91], [141], 172, n. [127]; method of representing by Cassini, [142]
• Ptolemy, Claudius, foremost ancient map maker, I, [5];
  • maps not popular in middle ages, [5];
  • demonstrates the utility of lines of latitude and longitude, [10];
  • gives information on construction and use of the astrolabe, [19];
  • his ideas on globe construction, [19], [20], II, [198];
  • his atlases, I, 12, n. [15];
  • his forty-eight constellations, 24, n. [43]
• Pythagoreans, their arguments supporting the spherical theory, I, [6]
• Rad, Christopher, constructed the globe of Christopher Treffler, II, [94]
• Raleigh, Sir Walter, I, [194]
• Ravenna, Classense Library (Biblioteca Classense), II, [114] (Coronelli); [186] (Adams)
• Reggio, Cathedral Library (Biblioteca Capitolare), II, [59] (Greuter); [114] (Coronelli).
• • Spallanzani Liceum, II, [178] (Desnos); [96] (Maccari)
• René, Duke of Lorraine, patron of culture and learning, I, [68] Reymer von Streytperg,
  • Canon Church of Bamberg, I, [86];
  • Schöner dedicates to him his globe of 1523, [86]
• Riccioli, Giovanni Battista, improves map making, II, [137]
• Rimini, Gambalunga Library, II, [42] (Blaeu).
  • Episcopal Seminary (Seminario Vescovile), II, [11] (Hondius); [255] (Cassini); [190] (Viani)
• Ringmann, Philesius, member of St. Dié coterie, I, [68]
• Roger of Sicily, said to have possessed a silver globe, I, [27]
• Romano, Giulio, said to have decorated globe of Pope Julius II, I, [64]
• Romans, not especially interested in globe making, I, [20], [21]; globes represented on Roman coins and medals, [21], 24, n. [46]
• Rome, Astronomical Museum (Museo Astronomico), I, [134] (Mercator); [150] (De Mongenet); [168] (Cartaro); [205] (Van Langren); II, [48] (Plancius); [14] (Hondius); [59] (Greuter); [65] (Heroldt); [118] (Coronelli); [124] (Eimmart); [156] (Seutter); [154] (Bion); [159] (Nollet); [185] (Adams); [189] (Scaltaglia); [190] (Viani); [179] (Costa); [154] (Cartilia).
  • Angelica Library (Biblioteca Angelica), II, [27] (Blaeu).
  • Alessandrina Library, II, [84] (Moroncelli).
  • Barberini Library (Biblioteca Barberini), I, [180] (Platus); II, [42] (Blaeu); [13] (Hondius); [44] (Ferreri).
  • Campidoglio Observatory, II, [194] (Cary).
  • Casanatense Library, II, [89] (Moroncelli).
  • [288] Chigi Library, II, [44] (Blaeu); [59] (Greuter).
  • Victor Emanuel Library, I, [151] (Florianus); II, [165] (Anonymous); [59] (Greuter); [118] (Coronelli).
  • Lancisiana Library, I, [165] (Barocci); II, [120] (Giordani); [114] (Coronelli).
  • Palace Prince Massimo, II, [80] (Benci).
  • Vallicellian Library, II, [268] (M. P.).
  • Library Count Vespignani, II, [194] (Gary).
  • Vatican Observatory (Osservatorio Vaticano), I, [62] (Julius II)
• Rosenthal, Ludwig, possessed as dealer certain old globes, I, [147]
• Rosselli, Alexander, map and probably globe gore printer, I, [64]
• Rosselli, Francesco, map printer of Florence, I, [64]
• Rossi, Josef de, II, [13]; Giovanni Battista de, [61]; Dominici de, [63]
• Rotterdam, Marine School, II, [66] (Keulin); [263] (Greuter)
• Rovigo, Concordia Academy (Accademia Concordia), II, [30] (Blaeu)
• Rubruquis, I, [46]
• Rüdlingen, City Library, II, [30] (Blaeu)
• Rudolphis, Mons. R., possessed a globe, I, [66]
• Ruscelli, Girolamo, direction for globe construction, I, [153];
  • considered globes preferable to maps, [154]
• Sacrobosco (John of Holywood), I, [43];
• • supported the theory of a spherical earth, [43]
• St. Dié, center of interest in geographical discovery and general culture, I, [68];
  • its press first prints the name “America”, I, [70]
• St. Gall, globe made for, I, [198]
• S. Maria a Monte, Palace Sr. Scaramucci, II, [191] (Delamarche)
• St. Nicholas, City Archives, I, [133] (Mercator)
• Salviati, Cardinal Giovanni, asked Vannelli to construct a globe for him, I, [66]
• Salzburg, City Museum, I, [116] (Vopel)
• Sandacourt, Jean Bassin de, member of St. Dié coterie, I, [68]
• Sanderson, William, patron of Molyneux, I, [191]
• Sanseverino, Communal Library (Biblioteca Comunale), II, [59] (Greuter)
• Santa Cruz, Alonso de, location of copies of his ‘Yslario,’ I, [121];
  • peculiarities of his globe gores, II, [207]
• Santucci, Antonio, restores globe of Ignazio Danti, I, [162]
• Sanuto, Giulio, Venetian map maker, I, [154]
• Sanuto, Livio, Venetian nobleman and map maker, I, [154]
• Savignano, Communal Library (Biblioteca Comunale), II, [63] (Greuter); [164] (Anonymous)
• Savona, Scuole Pie, II, [44] (Blaeu)
• Schimpfer, Bartholomeus, astrologer and teacher of Erhard Weigel, II, [76]
• Schöner, Johann, represents a strait south of South America on his globe of 1515, I, [85]
• Schouten (Shouten), William van, explorer, II, [27], [31], [38], [51], [63]
• Scovus, John, the Dane, reference to his visit to Greenland in 1476, I, [190]
• Senex, John, proposes a “New globular projection,” II, [151]
• Senigallia, Library Sr. Fronzi, II, [179] (Costa)
• Serra S. Quirico, Communal Library (Biblioteca Comunale), II, [60] (Greuter)
• Seylor (er), Johann, patron of Johann Schöner, I, [83]
• Siena, Communal Library (Biblioteca Comunale), II, [163], [164] (Anonymous); [184] (Messier); [190] (Delamarche)
• Signoria, reference in its records to a globe placed in its orologia, I, [65], [66]
• Smith, Buckingham, obtains Ulpius globe in Madrid, I, [117]
• [289] Soncino, Raimondi de, reference to Cabot’s globe, I, [53]
• Sondrio, Communal Library (Biblioteca Comunale), II, [53] (Habrecht)
• Southwest passage, referred to, II, [24]
• Spilbergen, George, explorer, II, [37]
• Stabius, Johannes, peculiarities of his map projection, II, [201]
• Stams, Monastery Library, I, [133] (Mercator)
• Stars, remarkable, referred to under “Tycho Brahe,” II, [108], [109]
• Stimmer, Tobias and Josias, assisted in constructing Strassburg clock, I, [174]
• Stockholm, Library Baron Nordenskiöld, I, [77] (Nordenskiöld gores); [152] (Florianus).
  • Royal Library, I, [121] (Santa Cruz).
  • National Museum, II, [53] (Hauer)
• Strabo, his suggested proof of the earth’s sphericity, I, [6];
  • his idea as to the proper size of a globe to be useful, [8], [9];
  • described the use and construction of the astrolabe and celestial sphere, [19], [20]
• Strassburg clock, described, I, [176]
• Sturm, Johann Christopher, teacher of Doppelmayr, II, [159]
• Subiaco, Monastic Library (Monastero di S. Scolastica), II, [184] (Messier)
• Sylvester II, Pope, proposed to construct a globe, I, [39]
• Syracuse, Meteorological Observatory, II, [171] (Ferguson)
• Syrians, belief in a circular earth and opposed to the spherical doctrine, I, [36]
• Taisnero, referred to by Roscelli as a globe maker, I, [154]
• Tassarolo, Spinola Palace, II, [178] (Vaugondy)
• Thales, I, [5], [14]
• Theodorus, Petrus, astronomical observations followed by Hondius, II, [8], [9], [12]
• Tiesbach, Gabriel, I, [148]
• Tiraboschi, allusion to a globe belonging to Cardinal Bembo, I, [120]
• Tolentino, Episcopal Seminary (Seminario Vescovile), II, [255] (Cassini) Torino,
• • State Archives, I, [151] (Florianus).
  • Academy of Sciences (Accademia delle Scienze), II, [114] (Coronelli).
  • National Library (Biblioteca Nazionale), I, [163] (Basso)
• Toscanella, Episcopal Seminary (Seminario Vescovile), II, [263] (Greuter).
• Toscanelli, Paolo, said to have made use of globes, I, [52]
• Transit circle, first made by William Cary, II, [194]
• Treviso, City Library (Biblioteca Civico), I, [151] (Florianus); II, [13] (Hondius).
  • Library Canon Luigi Belli, II, [60] (Greuter)
• Trieste, City Museum, II, [118] (Coronelli)
• Trip, John, J. U. D., globes dedicated to, II, [146]
• Trithemius, Johannes, purchases a terrestrial globe, 1507, I, [66]
• Tsarskoe, Selo Castle, II, [74] (Gottorp)
• Uranienburg (Uraniburg), name given to Tycho Brahe’s observatory, I, [184], II, [19]
• Urbania, Communal Library (Biblioteca Comunale), I, [134] (Mercator)
• Urbino, Cardinal of, possessed a globe, I, [152].
• • University Library (Biblioteca Universitario), II, [156] (Seutter); [179] (Costa)
• Usselinx, William, organizes the West India Company, II, [46]
• Utrecht, Geographical Institute, II, [254] (Blaeu)
• Valencia, Arabic globe constructed in, I, [28]
• Vannelli, Friar Giuliano, repairs clock and globe in Florentine Signoria, I, [65];
• • [290] makes globe for Cardinal Salviati, [66]
• Van der Noort, Oliver, reference to his voyage, II, [28]
• Varthema, Ludovico, referred to by Van Langren, I, [206]
• Veen, Adrian, associated with Hondius in globe making, II, [11], [12], [13]
• Venice, Marciana Library, I, [151] (Florianus); II, [83] (Moroncelli); [111] (Coronelli).
  • City Museum (Museo Civico), II, [44] (Blaeu); [114] (Coronelli).
  • Marco Foscarini Liceum (Museo Marco Foscarini), II, [44] (Blaeu); [143] (Miot).
  • Quirini Pinacoteca, II, [44] (Blaeu); [178] (Vaugondy).
  • State Archives, II, [60] (Greuter).
  • Patriarchal (Seminario Patriarcale), II, [114] (Coronelli).
  • Patriarchal Observatory (Osservatorio Patriarcale), II, [272] (Vaugondy); [258] (Delamarche).
  • Library Prof. Maxim. Tono, II, [270] (Seutter)
• Verona, Cathedral Library (Biblioteca Capitolare), II, [162] (Doppelmayr)
• Verrazano, Hieronimus de, map of 1529, I, [106]
• Vesoul, birthplace of François De Mongenet, I, [147]
• Vicenza, Library Count Francesco Franco, II, [44] (Blaeu).
  • City Museum (Museo Civico), II, [18] (Hondius).
  • Communal Library (Biblioteca Comunale), II, [114] (Coronelli)
• Vienna, Library Prince Liechtenstein, I, [75] (Hauslab).
  • Imperial Library, I, [133] (Mercator);
  • II, [181] (Roll and Reinhold)
• Vigevano, Episcopal Seminary (Seminario Vescovile), II, [194] (Cassini)
• Vincent of Beauvais, belief in a spherical earth, I, [43]
• Viseo, Cardinal, possessed a terrestrial globe, I, [152]
• Volckamer, Paul, a patron of Behaim in the construction of his globe, I, [48]
• Vosgian Gymnasium of St. Dié, I, [68]
• Waldseemüller, Martin, his world map of 1507, I, [69]; allusion in his “Cosmographiae Introductio” to his globe, [70]
• Washington, National Museum, I, [113] (Vopel).
• • Library of Congress, I, [115] (Vopel); [152] (Florianus); II, [112] (Coronelli); [259] (Doppelmayr)
• Weigel, Erhard, his proposed names for constellations, II, [77]; peculiarities of his globes, [77], [78]
• Weimar, Grand Ducal Library, I, [84], [108] (Schöner); [133] (Mercator)
• Welser, patrician family of Augsburg, I, [108]
• Werner, Johann, his map projection, I, [151]
• William III, King of England, Coronelli dedicates to him his globe of 1696, II, [115]
• William, Landgraf of Cassel, patron of science and general culture, I, [184]
• Willoughby, Hugo, explorer, II, [38], [39]
• Windsor Castle, I, [78] (Da Vinci gores)
• Wolf, John David, acquires Ulpius globe for New York Historical Society, I, [117]
• Wolf, Peter, receives a globe from Johann Stöffler, I, [54]
• Wolfegg Castle, I, [199] (Gessner); II, [270] (Schöner)
• Worcester, American Antiquarian Society, II, [186] (Adams)
• Wright, Edward, English geographer, II, [3]
• Yonkers, Library W. B. Thompson, II, [60] (Greuter)
• Zeitung aus Presillig Landt, as a source for Schöner’s globe of 1515, I, [85]
• Zerbst, Francisceum Gymnasium, I, [291][103], [105] (Frisius); I, [140] (Plancius)
• Zumbach, Lothar, his reforms adopted by Valk, II, [146], [149]
• Zürich, National Museum, I, [200] (Gessner)
• Zütphen, City Museum, I, [212] (Van Langren)