NOTES
[181] See Fig. [56], I, [116].
[182] Compare for example Figs. [8] and [89].
[183] Consult the ‘Fihrist’ referred to in Chap. III, n. 4.
[184] Note such examples as the globe of Robertus de Bailly, I, [108], the Lenox globe, I, [72], the Nancy globe, I, [102], and the Morgan globe in the Metropolitan Museum, I, [200].
[187] See Apianus’ Cosmographicus liber.
[188] As for example the World map of Mercator of the year 1538, an original copy of which may be found in the New York Public Library, also a copy in the Library of The American Geographical Society.
[189] D’Avezac, M. A. P. Coup d’oeil historique sur la projection des cartes de géographie. (In: Bulletin de la Société de Géographie de Paris. Paris, 1863, pp. 274 ff.); Breusing, A. Das Verebnen der Kugeloberfläche. Leipzig, 1892; Zondervan, H. Allgemeine Kartenkunde. Leipzig, 1891; Fiorini, M. Le projezioni delle carte geografiche. Bologna, 1881. The literature relative to map projection is very extensive.
[190] Fiorini. Sfere terrestri e celesti. pp. 93-102.
[193] Dürer, A. Underweysung der Mesung mit dem Zirkel und Richtscheyd, in Linien ebnen und ganzen Corporen. Nürnberg, 1525.
[194] Buchlein, pp. 5 ff.
[195] Consult Günther. Erd- und Himmelsgloben. pp. 72-73; Kästner. Geschichte der Mathematik. Vol. I, p. 684.
See Günther, op. cit., chaps, vii, x, xii, xiii, xiv, with numerous references.
[196] Henrici Glareani poetae laureati de geographia liber unus. Basileae, 1527.
[197] There is an interesting bit of information given by Coronelli in his ‘Epitome Cosmografica’ relative to the making of an adhesive material for use in the mounting of globe maps.
[199] See Figs. [59] and [66].
[200] Such, for example, as might consist of zonal strips, one for the torrid, one for each of the temperate, and one for each of the polar zones. Such strips perhaps could not properly be termed gores.
[201] Pictures are a particularly striking feature of the cloister maps of the middle ages. The idea of such adornments may have come down from Greek or Roman days. Plutarch tells us in his ‘Theseus’ that “Geographers crowd into the edge of their maps parts of the world about which they have no knowledge, adding notes in the margins to the effect that only deserts full of wild beasts and impassable marshes lie beyond.” Jonathan Swift, humorously referring to maps of the early period, writes:
“So geographers in Afric maps With savage pictures fill their gaps And o’er unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns.”
The early map makers as illustrators should be an interesting theme for a special monograph.
[202] Nonius, P. De arte atque ratione navigandi. Conimbriae, 1573, lib. II, c. xxi, xxiv; Hues. Tractatus de Globis (Hakluyt Soc. Pub.). pp. 127-147.
[203] For illustration of the method, see Fig. [89].
[204] Burritt, L. H. The geography of the heavens. New York, 1833; Allen, R. H. Star names and their meanings; Wolf. Geschichte der Astronomie. pp. 188-191, 420-427; Olcott, W. T. Starlore of all ages. New York. 1911.
[205] The literature relating to this particular branch of astronomy is extensive. Wolf, loc. cit., with references.
[206] See especially Fig. [13].
[209] Wolf, R. Handbuch der Astronomie, ihre Geschichte und Litteratur. Zürich, 1893. pp. 451 ff.; Frobesius. Bibliographie Selenographorum. Helmstädt, 1718.
[210] Hevelius, J. Selenographiae sive Lunae descriptio. Danzig, 1647. pp. 492 ff.; Béziat, L. C. La vie et les travaux de Jean Hévélius.
[211] Lalande. Bibliographie astronomique, “La Hire.”
[212] Mayer, T. Abhandlung über die Umwälzung des Mondes um seine Achse und die scheinbare Bewegung der Mondflecke. Nürnberg, 1750; same, Bericht von den Mondskugeln, welche bei der kosmographischen Gesellschaft[219] in Nürnberg aus neuen Beobachtungen verfertigt werden. Nürnberg, 1750.
[213] Russel, J. A description of the selenographia, an apparatus for exhibiting the phaenomena of the moon; together with an account of some of the purposes to which it may be applied. London, 1797. In his effort to obtain funds for the construction of his globe he issued an announcement which he called a “Proposal for publishing by subscription a Globe of the Moon.”
