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Terrestrial and Celestial Globes.
reads, "Globus mundi Declaratio slue descriptio mundi et
totius orbis terrarum. globulo rotundo comparati vt spera
solida. Qua cuiuis etia mediocriter docto ad oculu videre
licet antipodes esse, quos pedes nostris oppositi sunt."
"Valete feliciter ex Argentina ultima Augusti. Anno post
natu salutatore. M.D.ix. Johannes griiniger imprimebat.
Adelpho castigatore," "The world globe. Exposition or description
of the world and of the terrestrial sphere constructed
as a round globe similar to a solid sphere, whereby
every man even of moderate learning can see with his own
eyes that there are antipodes whose feet are opposite
ours. . . . Farewell, Strassburg on the last day of August
A. D. 1509. Printed by Johann Griiniger. Corrected by
Adolphus."^^
Neither the author of this tract nor the maker
of the globe is known of certainty. They have been attrib-
uted to Glareanus as well as to Waldseemiiller.
There is still a third volume printed by Griiniger in this
year, 1509, which, however, appears to be but little more
than a German translation of the 'Globus Mundi,' The
title, slightly altered, reads, "Der welt kugel Beschrybiing
der Welt und dess gatzen Erttreichs hie angezogt iind ver-
gleicht einer rotunden kugeln die dan sunderlich gemacht
hie zii gehorede darin der Kauffma und ein ietlicher sehen
iind mercken mag wie die menschen unde gege uns wone iin
wie die son umbgang, herin beschriben mit vil seltzame
dinge (wood cut of globe) Getrucht zii Strassburg. Von
Johanne Gruniger in yar. M.D.ix. uif ostern. Johanne
Adelpho castigator." "Description of the world globe, of
the world and the entire terrestrial sphere here constructed
and made to resemble a round ball and is so arranged that
the merchant and every man may clearly see how that men
live underneath us, and here may be seen how the sun
moves about (the earth) with many wonderful things.
Printed at Strassburg. By Johann Griiniger in the 1 year 509
at easter. Johann Adelpho corrector."^^ This can as con-
as the title in the
fidently be taken to refer to a real globe
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