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Terrestrial and Celestial Globes Volume 2
Edward Luther Stevenson
365 pages~7 hr 17 min read23 chapters$4.99
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
- 1TERRESTRIAL AND CELESTIAL GLOBES
- 2THEIR HISTORY AND CONSTRUCTION INCLUDING A CONSIDERATION OF THEIR VALUE AS AIDS IN THE STUDY OF GEOGRAPHY AND ASTRONOMY
- 3VOLUME II
- 4Table of Contents
- 5List of Illustrations
- 6Chapter X
- 7Globes and Globe Makers of the Early Seventeenth Century. The Dutch Scientific Masters and Their Preëminent Leadership
- 8NOTES
- 9Chapter XI
- 10Globes of the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century
- 11NOTES
- 12Chapter XII
- 13Globes and Globe Makers of the First Half of the Eighteenth Century—from Delisle to Ferguson
- 14NOTES
- 15Chapter XIII
- 16Globes and Globe Makers of the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century
- 17NOTES
- 18Chapter XIV
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