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MAPS-L: Looking for Details of Globe Construction
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"Angie Cope, AGSL" <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 16 May 2005 09:38:19 -0500
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Subject: RE: MAPS-L: Looking for Details of Globe Construction
Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 15:33:12 +0100
From: "Francis Herbert" <[log in to unmask]>
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Bill:

I crib, and copy, from Tony Campbell's 'History of Cartography' gateway site, and recommend you interrogate the International Coronelli Society:-

"The International Coronelli Society for the Study of Globes (Internationale Coronelli-Gesellschaft für Globenkunde) is the only society devoted to the study of historical globes.  It holds Symposia every few years at a different European venue and publishes Globe Studies: the Journal of the International Coronelli Society. (Der Globusfreund - English Edition) (with 'Contents' of all volumes and 'Summaries' of recent volumes).  It produced the first issue of a new-format News in 2001 [successor to an occasional Information, which had also included listings of globes sold at auction (with 'Contents', 1979-98)].  See also the Society's Globe-Links and New Books.  The Society also offers the Fiorini-Haardt Prize.

Contact address: International Coronelli Society for the Study of Globes, c/o Jan Mokre, Austrian National Library, Globe Museum, Josefsplatz 1, A-1015 Vienna, Austria. Tel. +43-1-53410/298, Fax. +43-1-53410319, < Jan.Mokre(at)onb.ac.at > [NB. You need to replace (at) with the @ symbol]."

Francis Herbert (Curator of Maps, Globes, Charts, Diagram, Cartograms, etc., RGS-IBG)
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http://www.rgs.org [see 'Collections']


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Subject: Looking for Details of Globe Construction
Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 15:33:41 -0600 (MDT)
From: Bill Thoen
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Does anyone have an idea where I could get some details on how early
globes were constructed? I'm looking in particular for details on what the
spheres are made of and how they are built and mounted on their spindles.
There's plenty on the 'net about how the map gores are constructed, but
I'm finding very little on the mechanical and physical featuress of what's
under the paper.

TIA,

- Bill Thoen



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