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Terrestrial table globe

titelTerrestrial table globe 
inventarisnummerGLB0082 
collectieGlobes    
museumNational Maritime Museum, Greenwich   National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
datum1632  
omschrijvingTerrestrial table globe. Geographical details on the sphere show compass roses, but no loxodromes are drawn. California is a peninsular. In North America there are labels for 'FRETNUM DAVIS' and 'Nieu Nederland'. In Asia the Great Wall of China is drawn. Around the South Pole there is a label for a hypothetical southern continent. There are decorative scenes, ships and monsters in the oceans. There are nine notes on discoveries, for example, in North America within a decorative cartouche; in South America, around Cape Horn; and in the hypothetical southern continent inside a cartouche with a globe depicted on top of it and two navigators at the sides, one with a cross-staff and the other with a quadrant. A total of 11 oceans are named. Most of the texts on discoveries are copied from Blaeu's 680 mm terrestrial globe, GLB0104. The paper horizon ring for this globe is a later replacement. For full details about the cartography and construction of this globe please refer to the related publication. 
afmetingenOverall: 750 x 620 mm; Sphere diameter: 490 mm   
 

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