Terrestrial and Celestial Globes - Volume I Part 13
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[206] Stevenson. Maps ill.u.s.trating early discovery. No. 10 of this series is a reproduction of Maiollo's map in the size and in the colors of the original.

[207] Harrisse. Discovery. p. 546.

[208] Gallois, L. De Orontio Finaeo. Paris, 1890.

[209] Hakluyt, R. Discourse on Western Planting. Ed. by Charles Deane, with introduction by Leonard Wood. (In: Maine Historical Society, Collections, second series, ii, and printed as Doc.u.mentary History of the State of Maine. Vol.

II. Cambridge, 1877. Chap. XVII, --11, p. 116.)

In chapter 10 of the Discourse Hakluyt refers to the Locke map and its configurations, which map clearly is a modified reproduction of Verrazano's map of 1529.

[210] Harrisse. Discovery. pp. 562-568.

[211] Nordenskiold. Facsimile Atlas. p. 89. The author reproduces the Finaeus map from a 1566 reprint, observing that he was unable to locate a copy of the 1536 edition.

[212] Schefer, C. H. A. Le discours de la navigation de Jean et Raoul Parmentier. Paris, 1883. p. ix. The citation is from a contemporary source.

[213] Vasari, G. Lives of the painters. Tr. by Mrs. J.

Foster. London, 1850-1885. (In: Bohn Library, Vol. III, pp.

449-450.)

[214] Blau, M. Memoires de la Societe Royal de Nancy. Nancy, 1836. pp. xi-xiv, 107. An excellent reproduction of the globe in hemispheres accompanies this article; Vincent, R.

P. Histoire de l'ancienne image miraculeuse de Notre-Dame de Sion. Nancy, 1698. This work contains the first description of the globe; De Costa, B. F. The Nancy Globe. (In: The Magazine of American History. New York, 1881. pp. 183-187.) A representation of the globe in hemispheres is presented with this article, being a slightly reduced copy of the Blau ill.u.s.tration; Nordenskiold. Facsimile Atlas. p. 82; same, Periplus, p. 159; Winsor. Narrative and Critical History.

Vol. II, p. 433, also Vol. III, p. 214; Compt-Rendu, Congres des Americanistes. Paris, 1877. p. 359.

[215] The probability is it was not originally constructed for this purpose, although globe goblets were not uncommon in this century. See below, p. 199.

[216] Quetelet, L. A. J. Histoire des sciences mathematiques et physiques chez les Belges. Brussel, 1871, pp. 78 ff.; Ruscelli, G. La Geografia di Claudio Tolomeo. p. 32, there is reference to a "Globo, grande"; Kastner, Vol. II, pp. 579 ff.; Breusing, A. Leitfaden durch das Wiegenalter der Kartographie bis zum Jahre 1600. Frankfurt, 1883. p. 32.

[217] This book appears to be one of the earliest works treating of the scientific construction of globes, and of the use of trigonometry in the preparation of the globe gores.

[218] The representation closely resembles that given by Schoner. See Fig. 54.

[219] Ruge, W. Ein Globus von Gemma Frisius. (In: Internationaler Amerikanisten-Kongress, vierzehnte Tagung.

Stuttgart, 1904. pp. 3-10.)

[220] See below, p. 128, for the novelty introduced by Mercator, in which he truncated the gores near the poles.

[221] Raemdonck, J. van. Gerard Mercator, sa vie et ses oeuvres. St. Nicolas, 1869. p. 38.

[222] Nordenskiold. Facsimile Atlas, pp. 87-90. On map projection in general, see Wagner, H. Lehrbuch, der Geographie. Leipzig, 1903. Chap. iv; Zondervan, H.

Allgemeine Kartenkunde. Leipzig, 1901. Chap. iii. See also references below to Mercator's world map of the year 1538, p. 125.

[223] Harrisse, H. Un nouveau globe Verrazanien. (In: Revue de Geographie. Paris, 1895. pp. 175-177.) An extensive Verrazanian bibliography may be found in Phillips, P. L.

Descriptive list of maps of Spanish possessions in the United States. Washington, 1912. pp. 39-40.

[224] See Stevenson reproduction, n. 9, above.

[225] See Stevenson reproduction, n. 9, above.

[226] See references to Ulpius below, p. 117.

[227] Compare this mounting with that of Schoner as seen in Fig. 26.

[228] This is a tract of 44 pages.

[229] Schoner, J. Opera Mathematica. Norimbergae, 1551. See p. 127 for what has been thought to be a representation of Schoner's terrestrial and celestial globes of 1533. It will be noted that the maps in each of these globe pictures have been reversed.

[230] See above, p. 96.

[231] Wieser. Magalhaes-Stra.s.se. p. 76, and Tab. V, which is a copy of the southern hemisphere; Harrisse. Discovery. pp.

592-594, and pl. XVII, which is a copy of the western hemisphere; Santarem, V. de. Notice sur plusieurs monuments geographiques inedits.... (In: Bulletin de la Societe de Geographie. Paris, 1847. p. 322.); Stevens, H. Notes. New Haven, 1869. p. 19; Nordenskiold. Facsimile Atlas, pp. 80, 83; Winsor. Narrative and Critical History. Vol. VIII, p.

388.

[232] Harrisse. Discovery. p. 610.

[233] Harrisse. Discovery. p. 613, and pl. XXII, which is a representation of the western hemisphere.

[234] Michow, H. Caspar Vopell ein Kolner Kartenzeichner des 16 Jahrhunderts mit 2 Tafeln und 4 Figuren. (In: Hamburgische Festschrift zur Erinnerung an die Entdeckung von Amerika. Hamburg, 1892. Vol. I, pt. 4.); Graf, J. H. Ein Astrolabium mit Erdkugel aus dem Jahre 1545, von Kaspar Volpellius. (In: Jahresbericht d. Geographischen Gesellschaft zu Munchen. 15 Heft, p. 228); Nordenskiold, op.

cit., p. 83, and pl. XL, which gives a representation of the globe of 1543, twelve gores in colors; Merlo, J. J.

Nachrichten vom Leben und den Werken Kolner Kunstler, Koln, 1850. p. 493.

[235] Nordenskiold, op. cit., pl. XLV.

[236] Korth, L. Die Kolner Globen des Kaspar Vopelius. (In: Globus. Braunschweig, 1883. Vol. XLIV, pp. 62-63.)

[237] Described briefly by Michow, op. cit., p. 12.

[238] Letter of August 12, 1913.

[239] Described briefly by Michow, op. cit., p. 13.

[240] Described by Michow, op. cit., p. 14. Michow cites a letter written by Postell to Abr. Ortelius, April 9, 1567, in which the accusation is made against Vopel that merely to please the Emperor Charles V he had joined America and Asia in his globe map. In this letter the New World is called Atlantis.

[241] Such globes, it will be noted, represent the Ptolemaic system.

[242] Fiorini. Sfere terrestri e celesti. p. 214.

[243] Wieser, F. R. v. A. E. Nordenskiold's Facsimile Atlas.

(In: Petermanns Geographischen Mitteilungen. Gotha, 1890. p.

275.)

[244] Graf, op. cit., n. 37.

[245] Compare with that reproduced by Nordenskiold, n. 38 above.

[246] Gunther. Erd- und Himmelsgloben. p. 57; Doppelmayr, op. cit., p. 56. Hartmann was a noted manufacturer of globes and mathematical instruments in Nurnberg. In his youth he spent several years in Italy, probably in Venice.

[247] De Costa, B. F. The Globe of Ulpius. (In: Magazine of American History. New York, 1879. pp. 17-35.) Accompanying the article is a re-draughted representation of the western hemisphere; same author. Verrazano the Explorer. New York, 1881. (In: Magazine of American History. New York, 1881. p.