The Most Magnificent and Largest Globes of Blaeu, the World's Greatest Globe Maker

Download or read book The Most Magnificent and Largest Globes of Blaeu, the World's Greatest Globe Maker written by Peter C.J. van der Krogt and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-07-04 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.