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Guilielmi Blaeu Institutio astronomica de usu globorum & sphærarum cælestium ac terrestrium: duabus

Creator:
Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, 1571-1638
Hortensius, Martinus, 1605-1639
Published / Created:
Anno Dom. 1665.
Call Number:
QB41 B52 1665
Image Count:
206
Description:
Madan 2694 (not seen); presumably a reissue of the 1663 edition (Madan 2632, also not seen), with a new cancelling title page.
Publisher:
Excudebat W. Hall impensis Joh. Forrest,
Subject (Name):
Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543 and Ptolemy, 2nd cent.
Subject (Topic):
Globes and Sundials
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Guilielmi Blaeu Institutio astronomica de usu globorum & sphærarum cælestium ac terrestrium: duabus partibus adornata : Una, secundum hypothesin Ptolemæi ... / Altera, juxta mentem N. Copernici ... Latinè reditta à M. Hortensio ...

2.
I. Bedford, P.H., M.D., Univ. Patav.

Creator:
Bedford, I., M.D.
Collection Title:
Bookplate Collection
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Description:
A coat of arms divided into four main portions; two with three swords each. A face adorns the top, with mantling and flowers about. Above the crest is a globe, and the motto Nil Desp Erandum.
Subject (Name):
Bedford, I.
Subject (Topic):
Armorial, Globes, Heraldic bookplates, Physicians, Shield, and Shields
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > I. Bedford, P.H., M.D., Univ. Patav.

3.
J. Beatty, M.D.

Creator:
Beatty, James
Collection Title:
Bookplate Collection
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Description:
A coat of arms which appears to be propped up against a leafed tree. A large beehive with several bees takes up most of the shield, and a lion holding a crescent is at the top. To the left of the shield is a caduceus; to the right is a globe and an op...
Subject (Name):
Beatty, James
Subject (Topic):
Books, Caduceus, Globes, Lions, Maps, Nature, Physicians, and Shields
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > J. Beatty, M.D.

4.
[Globe gores forgery after Martin Waldseemüller].

Published / Created:
[early 20th century]
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1486 (Oversize)
Container / Volume:
Box (Oversize)
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A photomechanical print probably created during the early twentieth century as a forgery that reproduces twelve gores for a globe published in 1507 by Martin Waldseemüller based on his wall map, Universalis Cosmographia (1507).
Description:
A gore is a roughly triangular or wedge-shaped segment of an object, as found in domes and globes, where a sector of a curved surface, or a curved surface that lies between two close lines of longitude on a globe, and flattened to a plane surface with...
Subject (Geographic):
America
Subject (Name):
Hauslab, Franz, 1798-1883., Vespucci, Amerigo, 1451-1512., and Waldseemüller, Martin, 1470-1519
Subject (Topic):
Forgeries, Globes, World maps, Discovery and exploration, and Name
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Globe gores forgery after Martin Waldseemüller].