- 1279 al-Urdi: Adolph Drechsler,
Der Arabische Himmelsglobus des Mohammed ben Muyîd el-'Ordhi vom Jahre 1279
im Mathematisch-physikalischen Salon zu Dresden. Dresden 1922.
- 1507 Waldseemüller's globe: First printed globe, Strassburg.
May have been part of his 1509 "Globus Mundi". This 19th century reproduction is from
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3201b.hl000014
LOC license: free for edu/research use.
- 1518 Peter Apian (?). Ingolstadt.
This 19th century reproduction is also from
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3201b.hl000014
LOC license: free for edu/research use.
Information from this LOC website: According to Shirley's Mapping of
the world, 1993, this globe was created by an unknown
cartographer in Ingolstadt around 1518, not by Peter Apian in
1524, and the Waldseemüller gores were created in Strassburg in
1507.
- 1523 Schöner: Franz Wieser: Der Verschollene Globus des Johannes Schöner von 1523.
in: Sitzungsberichte der Kais. Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien, Phil.-Hist. Classe, Band CXVII, Wien 1888.
- 1555 Floriano: Processed map from:
http://www.myloc.gov/Exhibitions/EarlyAmericas/AftermathoftheEncounter/DocumentingNewKnowledge/MappingtheWorld/ExhibitObjects/AntoineFlorianosWorldMap.aspx.
Info found there:
Antonio Floriano was granted a privilege by the Venetian Senate
to prepare and publish a world map in January 1555. The map
appears in two hemispheres each cut into thirty-six gores, and
it is copied evidently from Gerard Mercator's 1538 double
cordiform (heart-shaped) map. The name "America" appears in both
the northern and southern portions of the Western Hemisphere and
America is shown as separate from the Asian continent.
Antonio Floriano (fl. mid-sixteenth century). Untitled globe gores in Antoine Lafrery (1512-1577), Geografia tavole moderne di
geographia. Rome: Antoine Lafrery, 1575? Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (148.03.00).
LOC license: free for edu/research use.
- 1603 Oterschaden: Gores from LOC: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3201b.hl000015.
LOC license: free for edu/research use.
- 1615 Hondius: Globe of 19cm diameter, scale 1:60,000,000.
Jodocus Hondius (1563-1612) counted the longitudes not from the Fortunate Islands like Ptolemy, but from the Azores.
Reissued by Giuseppe di Rossi in 1615.
Globe gores from http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3201b.ct000726.
LOC license: free for edu/research use.
- 1626 Nicolai/Greuter: Nicolai, Gulielmus, fl. 1573-1613, creator and Greuter, Mathieu, 1564?-1638.
From the Open Collections Program at Harvard University. Expeditions and discoveries,
http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/dl/expeditions/011525130
- Mercator's gores scanned from 1968 reprints:
Les Sphères Terrestre & Céleste de Gérard Mercator 1541 et 1551.
Editions Culture et Civilisation, Bruxelles 1968. Courtesy of S. Missinne, IMCoS Austria.
For illustrative purposes I took the liberty to colorize those two globes. Some ideas of the color scheme for the celestial globe
were taken from photos of the original globe available at
http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/maps/exhibits/mercator/celestial/index.html.
- Coronelli's gores processed from:
Die Globen des Vinzenzo Coronelli. Bildmaterial und Anleitung zum Nachbau eines Erd- und Himmelsglobus.
Zusammengestellt von Gerhard Holzer, Sammlung Woldan, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien 2009.
- 1790 Cassini: Globe of 1790 by Giovanni Maria Cassini (1745-1824), diameter 340mm
Globe gores from http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3201b.ct001065a
LOC license: Free for edu/research use.
- 1792 Cassini's Celestial globe: A true masterpiece!
Without a grid, I had to do some image editing first, overlaying a dense grid following N. Bion's scheme, some distortions and fine adjusting between gores.
Given the high quality of the images, I use the maximum texture size allowed for each half-gore, so be patient while loading.
This globe uses the excellent scans
from the David Rumsey Map Collection.
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