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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
Printers mark.
NEW HAVEN: PUBLISHED FOR
THE HISPANIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA BY THE
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
LONDON·HUMPHREY MILFORD·OXFORDUNIVERSITY PRESS
MDCCCCXXI

COPYRIGHT, 1921, BY
THE HISPANIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA
Museum of The Hispanic Society of America.
Museum of The Hispanic Society of America.
 
AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED
TO
MY WIFE GRACE
MY CHILDREN KATHARINE AND EDWARD
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Table of Contents
  PAGE
List of Illustrationsxiii
Forewordxix
Chapter I: Terrestrial Globes inAntiquity
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The beginnings of astronomical and ofgeographical science.—Primitive attempts at mapconstruction, as seen in the Babylonian plan of theworld.—Anaximander probably the first scientificcartographer.—Statements of Herodotus.—Theplace of Hecataeus, Hipparchus, Marinus, Ptolemy.—TheRo                        
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