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Johann Schoner\'s Globe of 1515 by Chet Van Duzer

The first detailed study of the terrestrial globe of Johann Schoner (1477-1547), a cosmographer and teacher of mathematics in Nurnberg, which he made as part of the first pair of celestial and terrestrial globes in 1515. The globe is not much younger than the earliest surviving terrestrial globe from 1492. The globe is an important part of early 16th-cent. cartography, and an important chapter in the cartographic history of the New World. Transcribing all of the toponyms and legends on the globe has entailed an examination of textual, catographic, and graphical sources which has shed light on the relationship of the globe to maps, globes, and books of the period. "A work of consummate scholarship." Illustrations.

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"A reference book that will be of great use to historians of early cartography…[T]he most extensive study of a single globe ever to have been published." - W.F.F. Morzer Bruyns (International Journal of Maritime History) "The scholarship is of the highest standard, as may be expected from a publication of the American Philosophical Society. It will be an essential reference for research into geography and cartography of the early sixteenth century." - Robert J. King (The Globe)

Details ISBN1606180053 Short Title Johann Schoner's Globe of 1515 Language English Year 2010 ISBN-10 1606180053 ISBN-13 9781606180051 DEWEY 912 Author Chet Van Duzer Series Transactions of the American Philosophical Society Format Paperback Publication Date 2010-01-01 Subtitle Transcription and Study Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 100, Part 5) Country of Publication United States US Release Date 2010-01-01 Place of Publication Philadelphia Audience Professional & Vocational Publisher American Philosophical Society Press Imprint American Philosophical Society Press Country of Origin US Product Class Description Geography Pages 217 UK Release Date 2010-01-01
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