TERRESTRIAL AND CELESTIAL GLOBES
THEIR HISTORY AND CONSTRUCTION INCLUDING A CONSIDERATION OF THEIR VALUE AS AIDS IN THE STUDY OF GEOGRAPHY AND ASTRONOMY
BY
EDWARD LUTHER STEVENSON, PH.D., LL.D.
MEMBER OF THE HISPANIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA
VOLUME I
NEW HAVEN: PUBLISHED FOR THE HISPANIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA BY THE YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
LONDON · HUMPHREY MILFORD · OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
MDCCCCXXI
COPYRIGHT, 1921, BY THE HISPANIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA
AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED
TO
MY WIFE GRACE
MY CHILDREN KATHARINE AND EDWARD
Table of Contents
PAGE
List of Illustrations xiii
Foreword xix
Chapter I: Terrestrial Globes in Antiquity 1
The beginnings of astronomical and of geographical science.--Primitive attempts at map construction, as seen in the Babylonian plan of the world.--Anaximander probably the first scientific cartographer.--Statements of Herodotus.--The place of Hecataeus, Hipparchus, Marinus, Ptolemy.--The Romans as map makers.--The earliest beliefs in a globular earth.--Thales, the Pythagoreans, Aristotle.--Eratosthenes and his measurements of the earth.--Crates probably the first to construct a terrestrial globe.--Statements of Strabo.--Ptolemy's statements concerning globes and globe construction.--The allusions of Pliny.
Chapter II: Celestial Globes in Antiquity 14
Thales' ideas, probably not a globe maker.--Eudoxus.--The Atlante Farnese.--Archimedes.--Allusion of Lactantius.--Pappus' allusions.--Armillary spheres.--The astronomer Hipparchus.--Ptolemy.--Globes used for decorative purposes by the Romans.--Roman coins.--The Byzantine Leontius Mechanicus.