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Science & Nature
Terrestrial and Celestial Globes Volume 1
Edward Luther Stevenson
289 pages~5 hr 45 min read34 chapters$4.99
Before satellites, people held the whole earth and heavens in their hands as painted globes. Edward Stevenson traces the terrestrial globe from antiquity onward, sphere by careful sphere. A rich history of how we modeled our world and sky. For the map lover and the collector, the first volume of a definitive account.
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34 chapters
- 1TERRESTRIAL AND CELESTIAL GLOBES
- 2THEIR HISTORY AND CONSTRUCTION INCLUDING A CONSIDERATION OF THEIR VALUE AS AIDS IN THE STUDY OF GEOGRAPHY AND ASTRONOMY
- 3VOLUME I
- 4AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED TO MY WIFE GRACE MY CHILDREN KATHARINE AND EDWARD
- 5Table of Contents
- 6List of Illustrations
- 7Foreword.
- 8Chapter I
- 9Terrestrial Globes in Antiquity
- 10NOTES
- 11Chapter II
- 12Celestial Globes in Antiquity
- 13NOTES
- 14Chapter III
- 15Globes Constructed by the Arabs
- 16NOTES
- 17Chapter IV
- 18Terrestrial and Celestial Globes in the Christian Middle Ages
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