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The Most Magnificent and Largest Globes of Blaeu, the World's Greatest Globe Maker / edited byPeter C.J. van der Krogt.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cartography.
- Globes.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (18 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2001.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: van der Krogt, Peter C. J. The Most Magnificent and Largest Globes of Blaeu, the World's Greatest Globe Maker
- ISBN:
- 9789004507531
- OCLC:
- 1336404432
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004507531 DOI
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