Terrestrial & Celestial Globes. Edward Luther Stevenson

This statement reads: “Habes candide lector tabellam preinsculptam tibi latitudinem graduum regionium … In globo vero diei quantitatem et noctis … sic comprehendere potes omni de regione tam per globum quam per sexagenarium.” “You have, dear Reader, before you, a small plate on which are inscribed the degrees of latitude of the countries … on the globe (you see) the duration of the day and night … thereby you will be able to ascertain (the position of) every country by the globe as well as by the sexennium.”

179 Tessier, A. Di Cesare Vecellio e de’ suoi dipinti e disegni in una Collezione di libri dei secoli XV e XVI. Rome, 1876. (In: Bollettino della Societe geografica italiana. Rome, 1876. Série II, Vol. I, pp. 39–42.)

      Tessier’s discourse was delivered at the Venetian Atheneum, 1875. Jacoli, F., likewise refers to this globe in Gazzetta di Venezia, January 15, 1876. It is not known just what disposition has been made of the globes by Admiral Acton.

180 Las Casas. Historia. Tomo IV, lib. III, cap. ci, p. 377; Herrera, A. Descriptione las Indias Ocidentales. Madrid, 1730. Tomo II, lib. II, cap. xix, p. 52.

181 The first voyage around the world by Magellan. Tr. by Stanley of Alderley, Lord. London, 1874. (In: Hakluyt Society Publications. London, 1874. Vol. 52, p. xliv.); Pigafetta, Antonio. Magellan’s Voyage around the world. The original text of the Ambrosian MS., with English translation, notes, bibliography, and index. Ed. by Robertson, J. A. Cleveland, 1906.

182 Documentos ineditos por la Historia de España. Madrid, 1847. Vol. I, p. 265.

183 Harrisse, op. cit., p. 544.

184 Doppelmayr. Nachrichten. pp. 45–50; Varnhagen, F. A. de. Jo. Schöner e P. Apianus (Benewitz) influencia de um e outro e de varios de seus contemporaneos na adopção do nome America. Vienna, 1872; Stevens, H. Johann Schöner, professor of Mathematics at Nuremberg; a reproduction of his globe of 1523 long lost; his dedicatory letter to Reymer von Streytperck and the ‘De Moluccis’ of Maximilianus Transylvanus, with a new translation and notes of the globe. Ed. with an introduction and bibliography by Coote, C. H. London, 1888. pp. xxxix-xliv contains a short biography of Schöner; Algemeine Deutsche Biographie, “Schöner.”

185 Harrisse. B.A.V. No. 80. The full title with bibliographical references are here given. In addition to the mere title we read “Cum Globis cosmographicis: sub mulcta quinquaginta florenorum Rhen. et amissione omnium exemplarium.” “With a cosmographical globe: under a fine of five hundred Rhenish florins and forfeiting all copies.”

186 Wieser. Magalhâes-Strasse. See especially chap. iii, “Der Globus Schöners vom J. 1515,” and reproduction, pl. II; Reproduction in Jomard, Nos. 15–16.

187 Harrisse. B.A.V. p. xlix, note 156; also Nos. 99, 100.

188 Stevenson. Martin Waldseemüller and the early Lusitano-Germanic Cartography.

189 Schöner. Luculentissima. fol. 60.

190 Schöner. Luculentissima. verso of fol. 60.

191 Wieser, op. cit.; Ghillany. Geschichte des Seefahrers Ritter Martin Behaim. pp. 8–12. Ghillany reproduces the western hemisphere of the globe in the original colors; Kohl, J. G. History of the Discovery of Maine. (In: Documentary history of the State of Maine. Portland, 1869.) Vol. I, pp. 158–163. This contains a much reduced reproduction of Ghillany’s facsimile of the western hemisphere; Nordenskiöld, op. cit., p. 80; Santarem. Atlas. pl. 52 (H. S. A. copy); Lelewel. Géographie du moyen âge. pl. 46.

192 The inscription reads as given by Ghillany.

193 Practically all of the works cited relating to Schöner treat more or less fully of the geographical features of Schöner’s globes. Wieser’s work is particularly valuable.

194 Stevens, op. cit., gives this letter in facsimile with translation; Wieser, op. cit., pp. 118–122, reprints the Latin of this letter.

195 Harrisse, op. cit., pp. 519–528.

196 Wieser, op. cit., p. 121.

197 Oberhummer, E. Leonardo da Vinci and the art of the renaissance in its relation to geography. (In: The Geographical Journal. London, 1909. See pp. 561–569 on Albrecht Dürer.)