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351Fiorini. Sfere terrestri e celesti. p. 221. The author briefly describes the Plautus globes. The information contained therein was also kindly sent for insertion in this work by the director of the Museum.

352Gerland. Beitrage. p. 69. See Chap. viii, n. 21.

353Fiorini, op. cit., pp. 200-202.

354Gassendi, P. Tychonis Brahei equitis Dani astronomorum coryphaei vita. Hagae, 1655; Dreyer, J. L. E. Tycho Brahe, a picture of scientific life and work in the sixteenth century. Edinburgh, 1890; Brahe, T. Astronomiae instauratae mechanica. Noribergae, 1602; Brahe, T. Epistolarum astronomicarum libri. Uraniburgi, 1596; Brahe, T. Tychonis Brahe mathim: eminent: Dani Opera Omnia. Ed. by J. G. Schonvetteri, Francofurti, 1648; Wolf. Geschichte der Astronomie. pp. 269-281; Kästner. Geschichte der Mathematik. Vol. II, pp. 376-411.

355Dreyer, op. cit., Chaps. v, vi.

356Tyconis Brahe astronomiae instauratae Mechanica.

357Raemdonck. Les sphères terrestres. p. 28; Chatel, M. Note sur une globe terrestre ... de la succession de Titon du Tillet. (In: Mémoire lus à la Sorbonne. Paris, 1865. pp. 161-170.)

358Marcel, G. Note sur une sphère terrestre faite en cuivre à la fin du XVIeSiècle. (In: Bulletin de la Société normande de Géographie. Rouen, 1891. pp. 153-160.)

359Humboldt, A. Examen Critique. Paris, 1836-1839. Vol. II, pp. 152-155; Harrisse. Discovery, pp. 657-658.

360Hakluyt, R. The principal Navigations, Voyages and Discoveries of the English Nation. London, 1589.

361Hood, D. The use of both the Globes, celestial and terrestrial, most plainly delivered in the form of a dialogue. London, 1592.

362Blundeville, T. Mr. Blundeville his Exercises. London, 1594.

363See above, p. 193.

364The several editions of this work are given by Markham, C. Hues, Treatise on Globes, pp. xxxvii-xl.

365Allgemeine deutsche Biographie “Bürgi, Jobst”; Doppelmayr, op. cit., p. 163; Wolf, R. Bürgi. (In: Biograph. z. Kulturgeschichte, 1 Zyklus, pp. 57 ff.); Weidler, F. Historia astronomiae. Vitembergae, 1741. p. 375; Gerland, op. cit., p. 68.

366Marcel, G. Note sur une mission géographique en Suisse. (In: Bulletin de la Société de Géographie. Paris, 1899. pp. 76-94.)

367Fischer, J. The globe-goblet of Wolfegg. (In: United States Catholic Historical Society Historical Records and Studies. New York, 1913. pp. 275-279.) See for mention of other Gessner globe cups.

368A sixteenth century globe cup. (In: Royal Geographical Journal. London, 1919. pp. 196-197.) This particular globe of Gessner was sold at Christie’s in London, July 23, 1919, for £3800. It is thought to have been made in the year 1595. Attention is called in this article to a globe cup in the British Museum, dated 1569.

369Beazley, C. R. Globe of 1593. (In: Royal Geographical Journal. London, 1904. pp. 496-498.)

370Poggendorff, J. C. Biographisch-literarisches Handwörterbuch. Leipzig, 1863; Kästner, op. cit., p. 393; Génard, P. Les Globes du géographe Arnauld Florent van Langren et de Guill. Blaeu. (In: Bulletin de la Société Royale Géographie d’Anvers. Anvers, 1883. pp. 150 ff.; Van der Aa.)

371Wieder, F. C. De Globe van Van Langren Ao1612. (In: Kon. Nederlandsch Aardrijkskundig Genootschap, 2eSérie Dl. XXXII, 1915, pp. 231-239.)

372Jonge, J. K. J. de. Opkomst van het Nederlandsch gezag in Oost-Indie. Gravenhage, 1862. Vol. I, p. 179. The author gives here a report rendered by J. Hondius in which he refers to the superiority of his globes to those of Van Langren. The report is dated 1597.

373Wieder, op. cit., n. 36 above, is a description of this globe with illustrations.

374Meucci, F. La Sfera armillere di Tolomeo construita da Antonia Santucci. Firenze, 1876.

Base of Apianus Globe, 1576.

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