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Terrestrial and Celestial Globes.
the New York Public Library, a set of the terrestrial and
the celestial gores is in the British Museum, and of
the terrestrial in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum of
Niimberg.
Of the second edition, copies of the unmounted gores maybe
found in the Bibliotheque Nationale, in the British
Museum, in the private library of Prince Trivulzio of
Milan. A mounted pair of the second edition may be found
in the Osservatorio Astronomico of Rome (Fig. 65), and
in addition a second example of the celestial globe, which
is described as having excellent mountings of brass, so
arranged as to make possible a revolution of the globe both
on an equatorial axis and an axis of the ecliptic. Its horizon
circle is supported by two brass semicircles, the whole resting
on four wooden columns of modern construction, and
these in turn resting on representations of lion's paws in
bronze. An example of the mounted terrestrial globe is said
to belong to the collection of Sr. Bazolle of Belluno, which
example once belonged to the Counts of Pilloni.
Attention has been called to the peculiar gore map of
Santa Cruz," and to the fact that his method of construction
seems not to have won favor. We, however, find among the
map makers of Italy, in the period of which we are now
speaking, one Antonius Florianus,^ who, if not copying the
plan of Santa Cruz, followed closely his scheme. His map,
of which numerous copies are known (Fig. 66), seems to
have been prepared for mounting on a ball, although no
such mounted example can now be located. With the poles
as centers, and with a radius equal to one quarter of the
circumference of the sphere he proposed to construct, he
drew his equatorial circles, which thus gave him two hemispheres,
respectively, a northern and a southern; in the same
manner he drew his parallels at intervals
using
of ten degrees,
for each the common polar centers. In each of the
hemispheres he drew thirty-six sectors, each sector being
made to represent ten degrees of longitude, and they were
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