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Chapter X: Globes and Globe Makers of the EarlySeventeenth Century. The Dutch ScientificMasters and Their Preëminent Leadership. | [1] | |
The shifting of globe making interest to the northwest of Europeat the close of the sixteenth century.—The Van Langrens asleaders.—Jodocus Hondius and his son Henricus.—WillemJansz. Blaeu and his sons, John and Cornelius.—The Ferreriarmillary sphere.—Globes of Peter Plancius.—Isaac Habrecht.—Globesof Mattheus Greuter and their reproduction by Rossi.—ManfredusSettàla.—Abraham Goos.—Adam Heroldt. | ||
Chapter XI: Globes of the Second Half of the SeventeenthCentury | [72] | |
Certain striking tendencies exhibited in the matter of globe makingin this period.—The Gottorp globes.—Weigel’s globes.—CarloBenci.—Amantius Moroncelli.—Castlemaine’s immovableglobe.—The armillary of Treffler.—Armillary sphere of GianBattista Alberti.—The numerous globes of P. Vincenzo Coronelli.—Certainanonymous globes of the period.—JohannesMaccarius.—Jos. Antonius Volpes.—Vitale Giordani.—GeorgeChristopher Eimmart.—Giuseppe Scarabelli.—Giovanni Battista.—JosephMoxon.—The Chinese globes of Peking. | ||
Chapter XII: Globes and Globe Makers of the FirstHalf of the Eighteenth Century—from Delisleto Ferguson | [137] | |
Activities of Guillaume Delisle.—Jean Dominique Cassini and hisreforms.—Vincenzo Miot.—The globes of Gerhard and LeonhardValk.—Activities of John Senex.—Nicolas Bion.—Thearmillary sphere of Carmelo Cartilia.—Mattheus Seutter ofAugsburg.—Robert Morden.—Jean Antoine Nollet.—JohannGabriel Doppelmayr of Nürnberg.—Terrestrial globe of Cusani.—Terrestrialglobes of Siena.—The work of the monkPietro Maria da Vinchio.—James Ferguson of Scotland. | ||
Chapter XIII: Globes and Globe Makers of the SecondHalf of the Eighteenth Century | [175] | |
Few globe makers of striking distinction in this period.—An apparentdecrease in scientific interest in globes, but an apparentincrease in popular interest.—Gilles and Didier Robert deVaugondy.—The work of Desnos.—Globes of Gian FrancescoCosta the Venetian.—Globes of Akerman and Akrel.—TheFrench globe makers Rigobert Bonne and Lalande.—CharlesMessier and Jean Fortin.—Globes of George Adams the Elder,of George Adams the Younger, and of Dudley Adams.—Smallglobes of Nathaniel Hill.—The work of Innocente Alessandriand Pietro Scaltaglia.—Charles Francis Delamarche.—Manuscriptglobes of Vincenzo Rosa.—Geographer and globe makerGiovanni Maria Cassini.—Globes of William Cary. | ||
Chapter XIV: The Technic of Globe Construction—Materialsand Methods | [196] | |
General problems to be met.—Development from the simplearmilla to the complex sphere.—The references of Ptolemy,Leontius Mechanicus, Alfonso.—Behaim’s leadership in practicalglobe making.—Materials employed.—Experiments in map projection.—Thebeginning and rapid development of globe-goreconstruction.—Various examples of early gore maps.—Equatorialpolar and ecliptic polar mountings.—Special features of celestialglobe maps.—Globe mountings.—Varying sizes of globes.—Theuses of globes.—Moon globes and planetariums | ||
Bibliographical List | [220] | |
Index of Globes and Globe Makers | [249] | |
General Index | [276] | |