Advances in modern science and technology have made present-day terrestrial and celestial globes scientifically obsolete and aesthetically banal. From the Renaissance to the mid-nineteenth century, however, they were indispensable tools for the study of geography and astronomy. Beginning with an overview of early globes, the authors examine how the modern era in globe making, which began in Flemish and Dutch shops in the early seventeenth century, show how globe making spread throughout Europe, and explain how what were both decorative and scientific objects became symbols of power, universal knowledge, intellectual status, and personal vanity. Beginning with the collection's earliest globe, dated 1533, the authors introduce us to the life and works of some of the greatest Dutch, French, English, German, Italian, and Swedish globe makers. The 120 colour illustrations allow the reader to savour these rare and unusual works and include numerous detailed reproductions of both terrestrial and celestial map images. Sphaerae Mundi charts developments and changes over three centuries of globe making, considering the globes as indicators of scientific advance and geographical exploration as well as artifacts and providing a unique opportunity to become familiar with these complex and beautiful objects.
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Charts developments and changes over three centuries of globe making.
Foreword 7(8) Mrs. David M. Stewart Preface 8(3) Introduction 11(14) Peter van der Krogt An Art Historians Approach to Globes 25(42) Robert Derome Globes from The Netherlands 67(20) Introduction 67(2) A Pair of Globes by the Blaeu Family: Terrestrial, Circa 1645-48, and Celestial, After 1630 69(6) Globes by Gerard and Leonard Valk, Circa 1701-50 75(9) Gerard Valks 1701 Pair of Globes, Reissued Circa 1750 77(4) A Valk Celestial Globe, Circa 1745, Set in an Early-Nineteenth-Century Planetarium 81(3) A. J. van Laun An Anonymous Star Globe, Eighteenth Century 84(3) Globes from England 87(18) Introduction 87(4) A Pocket Globe by Charles Price, Circa 1701 91(2) A Pocket Globe by Nathaniel Hill, 1754 93(3) John and William Carys Terrestrial Globe, 1791, in an Early-Nineteenth-Century Orrery 96(2) Robert Brettell Bate An Anonymous Miniature Globe in a Box, with Images of the Earths Inhabitants, Circa 1825-50 98(2) A Terrestrial Globe by Newton, Son & Berry, Circa 1831-33, in an Orrery by Benjamin Martin, Circa 1770 100(2) A Pair of Miniature Globes by James Wyld Jr.: Terrestrial, 1839, and Celestial, 1840 102(3) Globes from Germany 105(14) Introduction 105(2) A Terrestrial Globe by Johann Reinhold, Circa 1577-80 107(3) George Christoph Eimmarts Terrestrial and Celestial Globe Gores, 1705 110(5) Franz Ludwig Gussefelds ``Silent Globe, Circa 1792-1805 115(4) Globes from Italy 119(24) Introduction 119(3) Giuseppe de Rossis 1615 Copy of a 1601 Terrestrial Globe 122(3) Jodocus Hondius A Pair of Matthaus Greuters Globes: Terrestrial, 1632, and Celestial, 1636 125(6) Vincenzo Maria Coronellis Terrestrial Globe, 1688 131(4) A Pair of Globes by Giovanni Maria Cassini: Terrestrial, 1790, and Celestial, 1792 135(5) An Anonymous Armillary Sphere, Eighteenth Century 140(3) Globes from Sweden 143(6) Introduction 143(1) Two Terrestrial Globes by Anders Akerman, Reissued by Fredrik Akrel, 1779 and 1804 144(5) Globes from France 149(41) Introduction 149(3) A Celestial Globe From Blois, 1533, Attributed to the Workshop of Julien and Guillaume Coudray and Jean Du Jardin 152(2) Guillaume Delisles Pair of Globes, 1700, Reissued Circa 1708 154(8) A Celestial Globe by Abbe Jean-Antoine Nollet, Circa 1728 162(5) Globes by Didier Robert de Vaugondy 167(9) A Pair of Globes: Terrestrial, 1773, and Celestial, 1764 167(7) A Terrestrial Globe, 1754, Reissued Circa 1773 174(2) Ursin Barbays Glass Terrestrial Globe, 1799 176(2) A Pair of Globes by Charles-Francois Delamarche: Terrestrial, 1801, and Celestial, Circa 1800 178(6) Three Armillary Spheres and One Planetarium, Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries 184(6) Appendix 190(4) Bibliography 194(6) Index 200
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