Terrestrial globe gores
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Description
- Title
- Terrestrial globe gores
- Creator
- Coronelli, Vincenzo, 1650-1718, cartographer
- Contributor
- Accademia cosmografica degli argonauti (Venice : Republic : To 1797)
- Published / Created
- [1688]
- Publication Place
- Venice and Italy Venice
- Publisher
- L'Accademia Cosmografica Deglie Argonauti
- Description
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BEIN 2022 Folio 18: Variant 2. Imperfect: portions of gores [3], [4], and [10] supplied from Coronelli's Isolario. Assembled as 24 half gores (63 x 28 cm), plus the 2 polar calottes.
BEIN 2022 Folio 19: Imperfect: all but portions of gores [1], [2], [3], [5], [6], [7], [8], [10], [11], [12] wanting. From the library of Jonathan T. Lanman.
Set of 12 gores and 2 polar calottes for a terrestrial globe 110 cm in diameter. Each gore is printed on multiple sheets. According to Shirley, the calottes were printed separately and he does not include them in his description of the map.
Relief shown pictorially.
Place names in Latin, Italian, and Dutch. Explanatory text in Italian.
Title devised by cataloger.
Has at least two variants. In variant 1, the two oval frames in the decorative border around the cartouche beginning "Il genio della virtù all'eternità il nome di Cesare ..." have a portrait and a decorative design, and the small scroll at the bottom of the middle section of the dedicatory cartouche is blank. In variant 2, the two oval frames around the first cartouche are blank, and the scroll beneath the second cartouche has the text "Atlante Veneto."
Appears in Coronelli's Isolario, (1696-1697) and Libro dei globi, (1693-1707).
Prime merridian: Ferro. Coordinates converted by cataloger to express longitude as measured from the Greenwich meridian.
"Il genio della virtù all'eternità il nome di Cesare cardinale eminentissimo d'Estrees, duca, e pari di Francia, mentre fece elaborare per Lodovico il Magno dal P. Coronelli due gran globi, l'idea dè quali hà poi epilogata in questi per l'Accademia Cosmografica degli Argonauti, l'anno MDCLXXXVIII in Venezia."
"Al la serenissima republica e serenissimo principe Francesco Morosini doge de Venetia, capitan gen. da mare, &c."
Includes extensive explanatory notes providing details of exploratory expeditions. - Extent
- 1 map in 14 sections ; 125 x 37 cm or smaller
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been partially digitized.
- Scale
- Scale approximately 1:12,500,000
- Coordinates
- (W 180°--E 180°/N 90°--S 90°).
- Language
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Latin
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- 2022 Folio 19
- Container / Volume
- 1a-12b
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Maps
Early works to 1800
World maps
California as an island
Gores (Maps) - Resource Type
- cartographic image
- Subject (Geographic)
- Earth (Planet)
- Subjects
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Earth (Planet) > Maps > Early works to 1800
Lanman, Jonathan T. > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement
Identifiers
- Catalog Record
- 16220921
- Object ID (OID)
- 15831840
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