Nr. 38/39, REPORT on the VIIth INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM OF THE CORONELLI SOCIETY (NOVEMBER 1990 (für 1990/91)), pp. 23-35 (18 pages) Recent discoveries bring the total number of Islamic celestial ...

Islamicate celestial globes made as early as the eleventh century are found in museums and private collections today. There are also references in classical Greek and Roman literature to carlier ...

Antique brass globe and an old clock - Aris Suwanmalee G/Shutterstock Old, sepia-toned globes seem to be a hallmark of higher learning. That they end up in so many ancient libraries surrounded by ...

This article examines a pair of intriguing, but not yet fully identified, 16th Century globes. The unrecorded celestial globe is a nearly exact copy of Caspar Vopel's celestial globe of 1536, but with ...

The National Library of Australia (NLA) in Canberra has acquired two pairs of historic globes, dating back to 1799. The rare terrestrial and celestial floor globes were purchased from a New York ...

Old, sepia-toned globes seem to be a hallmark of higher learning. That they end up in so many ancient libraries surrounded by great volumes of literature and history attest to their place in the world ...