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Terrestrial and Celestial Globes Volume 2

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Terrestrial and Celestial Globes Volume 2

Edward Luther Stevenson

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The story moves into the seventeenth century and the Dutch masters who led the golden age of globe-making. Edward Stevenson follows the craft through its finest era of makers and marvels. A detailed second volume for anyone drawn to old maps and models of the cosmos. See how the world was rendered round for the age of exploration.

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23 chapters

  1. 1TERRESTRIAL AND CELESTIAL GLOBES
  2. 2THEIR HISTORY AND CONSTRUCTION INCLUDING A CONSIDERATION OF THEIR VALUE AS AIDS IN THE STUDY OF GEOGRAPHY AND ASTRONOMY
  3. 3VOLUME II
  4. 4Table of Contents
  5. 5List of Illustrations
  6. 6Chapter X
  7. 7Globes and Globe Makers of the Early Seventeenth Century. The Dutch Scientific Masters and Their Preëminent Leadership
  8. 8NOTES
  9. 9Chapter XI
  10. 10Globes of the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century
  11. 11NOTES
  12. 12Chapter XII
  13. 13Globes and Globe Makers of the First Half of the Eighteenth Century—from Delisle to Ferguson
  14. 14NOTES
  15. 15Chapter XIII
  16. 16Globes and Globe Makers of the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century
  17. 17NOTES
  18. 18Chapter XIV

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