Chapter XI: Globes of the Second Half of the Seventeenth

Century 72

Certain striking tendencies exhibited in the matter of globe making in this period.--The Gottorp globes.--Weigel's globes.--Carlo Benci.--Amantius Moroncelli.--Castlemaine's immovable globe.--The armillary of Treffler.--Armillary sphere of Gian Battista Alberti.--The numerous globes of P. Vincenzo Coronelli.--Certain anonymous globes of the period.--Johannes Maccarius.--Jos. Antonius Volpes.--Vitale Giordani.--George Christopher Eimmart.--Giuseppe Scarabelli.--Giovanni Battista.--Joseph Moxon.--The Chinese globes of Peking.