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Chapter VI
Globes of the Early Sixteenth Century
Summary of fifteenth century globe characteristics.— Increasing
interest in globes. —Globes of Pope Julius II.— Friar Marco da
Benevento.— Importance of the Rosselli family of Florence.—The
globe of Barnaba Canti.— Friar Giuliano Vannelli.— Interest of
Trithemius in globes. —The Bunau globe. — Waldseemiiller's map
and globe. —Liechtenstein globes. — Biichlin reference.—Globus
Mundi.—Welt Kugel.—Lenox globe. — Jagellonicus globe. —
Hauslab.—Green globe of Paris.—Nordenskiold gores. —So-
called Leonardo da Vinci gores. — Boulengier gores. —Acton
globes.—Globes of Magellan and of del Cano.—Globes of
Schoner.
globes of the early years of great
geographical discoveries, that is, of the fifteenth
TERRESTRIAL
century, to which reference was made in the preceding
chapter, appear to have been constructed either of
metal, on the surface of which the map was engraved, of
which the Laon globe is an example ; of a composition fash-
ioned into a ball over a mould on which strips of parchment
or paper were then pasted, having the map drawn by hand,
as the Behaim globe; or the ball was of wood with map in
manuscript, as was probably the globe attributed to John
Cabot. Here were beginnings, and the following century
witnessed a remarkable increase of interest in globe con-
struction. As the true position of places on the earth's sur-
face, as well as the distance between any two places, could
best be represented on a globe, cartographers and globe
makers became active in their endeavors to meet the desires
of those interested in geography. They no longer confined
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