Chapter XII: Globes and Globe Makers of the First

Half of the Eighteenth Century--from Delisle to Ferguson 137

Activities of Guillaume Delisle.--Jean Dominique Cassini and his reforms.--Vincenzo Miot.--The globes of Gerhard and Leonhard Valk.--Activities of John Senex.--Nicolas Bion.--The armillary sphere of Carmelo Cartilia.--Mattheus Seutter of Augsburg.--Robert Morden.--Jean Antoine Nollet.--Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr of Nürnberg.--Terrestrial globe of Cusani.--Terrestrial globes of Siena.--The work of the monk Pietro Maria da Vinchio.--James Ferguson of Scotland.