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First state of the first edition of Willem Blaeu’s globe, of which the Angelica Library possesses the only two known copies, along with the corresponding celestial spheres.<\/p>\n

Papier-m\u00e2ch\u00e9 sphere, internally hollow, covered with plaster, on which are applied twelve spindles and two paper caps engraved with burin. Metal meridian circle with degree division; wooden horizon circle covered with printed paper with degree division, calendar, zodiac signs and wind names. Original wooden stand.<\/p>\n

This “portable theater of land and sea,” as the author himself calls it in the dedication, represents a synthesis of knowledge of the earth at the end of the 16th century, a time when the season of great geographical discoveries had not yet ended and the boundaries of the world were being defined. Thus, while Europe, Asia, and Africa are well delineated and abound in indications and geographical names, the contours of North America still appear uncertain and in several places inexact; place names are concentrated along the coasts and become increasingly sparse as one proceeds northward from South America. A vast southern continent, “Terra Australis Magallanica,” occupies a very large area around the Antarctic pole pushing as far south as America, where it incorporates Tierra del Fuego.<\/p>\n

The globe is embellished with drawings and inscriptions enclosed in frames, containing the dedication, notice to the reader, a praise of Vasco de Gama, and a text on the discovery of America. Depictions of animals and groups of natives populate the continents; ships, fish and mythological figures are drawn in the spaces of the oceans, along with twelve roses of thirty-two winds.<\/p>\n

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Second state of the first edition (ca. 1598) of Blaeu’s celestial globe, built in 1603, four years after the terrestrial globe, to which it was to be flanked. Like the twin globe, it is a paper mache sphere, internally hollow, covered with plaster, to which twelve spindles and two paper caps are attached. Original wooden stand.<\/p>\n

The stars, drawn in gold, are included in drawings of the constellations of which they are a part, presumably the work of engraver Jan Pietersz Saenredam. The name of each constellation is given in Latin and Greek, with the exception of the new Australian constellations, of which only the name in Latin is given; a legend placed in the southern region gives an indication of the signs used to distinguish stars by their size and that used for nebulae.<\/p>\n

The author claims to have depicted the stars with great accuracy, in their exact position in the year 1600, and to have increased their number, thanks to the astronomical observations of his master Tycho Brahe and Frederick Houtman, discoverer of twelve new constellations in the Southern Hemisphere. A table also makes it possible to calculate the position of the stars in past and future years.<\/p>\n

A portrait of Tycho Brahe stands in frame in the southern hemisphere near the constellation Phoenix.<\/p>\n

The two pairs of globes owned by the library are identical except in the stand: one pair has the original wooden stand, the other a later-era, metal stand.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>First state of the first edition of Willem Blaeu’s globe, of which the Angelica Library possesses the only two known copies, along with the corresponding celestial spheres. Papier-m\u00e2ch\u00e9 sphere, internally hollow, covered with plaster, on which are applied twelve spindles and two paper caps engraved with burin. Metal meridian circle with degree division; wooden horizon circle covered with printed paper with degree division, calendar, zodiac signs and wind names. Original wooden stand. This “portable theater of land and sea,” as the author himself calls it in the dedication, represents a synthesis of knowledge of the earth at the end of the 16th century, a time when the season of great geographical discoveries had not yet ended and the boundaries of the world were being defined. Thus, while Europe, Asia, and Africa are well delineated and abound in indications and geographical names, the contours of North America still appear uncertain and in several places inexact; place names are concentrated along the coasts and become increasingly sparse as one proceeds northward from South America. A vast southern continent, “Terra Australis Magallanica,” occupies a very large area around the Antarctic pole […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"

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First state of the first edition of Willem Blaeu's globe, of which the Angelica Library possesses the only two known copies, along with the corresponding celestial spheres.<\/p>

Papier-m\u00e2ch\u00e9 sphere, internally hollow, covered with plaster, on which are applied twelve spindles and two paper caps engraved with burin. Metal meridian circle with degree division; wooden horizon circle covered with printed paper with degree division, calendar, zodiac signs and wind names. Original wooden stand.<\/p>

This \"portable theater of land and sea,\" as the author himself calls it in the dedication, represents a synthesis of knowledge of the earth at the end of the 16th century, a time when the season of great geographical discoveries had not yet ended and the boundaries of the world were being defined. Thus, while Europe, Asia, and Africa are well delineated and abound in indications and geographical names, the contours of North America still appear uncertain and in several places inexact; place names are concentrated along the coasts and become increasingly sparse as one proceeds northward from South America. A vast southern continent, \"Terra Australis Magallanica,\" occupies a very large area around the Antarctic pole pushing as far south as America, where it incorporates Tierra del Fuego.<\/p>

The globe is embellished with drawings and inscriptions enclosed in frames, containing the dedication, notice to the reader, a praise of Vasco de Gama, and a text on the discovery of America. Depictions of animals and groups of natives populate the continents; ships, fish and mythological figures are drawn in the spaces of the oceans, along with twelve roses of thirty-two winds.<\/p>

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Second state of the first edition (ca. 1598) of Blaeu's celestial globe, built in 1603, four years after the terrestrial globe, to which it was to be flanked. Like the twin globe, it is a paper mache sphere, internally hollow, covered with plaster, to which twelve spindles and two paper caps are attached. Original wooden stand.<\/p>

The stars, drawn in gold, are included in drawings of the constellations of which they are a part, presumably the work of engraver Jan Pietersz Saenredam. The name of each constellation is given in Latin and Greek, with the exception of the new Australian constellations, of which only the name in Latin is given; a legend placed in the southern region gives an indication of the signs used to distinguish stars by their size and that used for nebulae.<\/p>

The author claims to have depicted the stars with great accuracy, in their exact position in the year 1600, and to have increased their number, thanks to the astronomical observations of his master Tycho Brahe and Frederick Houtman, discoverer of twelve new constellations in the Southern Hemisphere. A table also makes it possible to calculate the position of the stars in past and future years.<\/p>

A portrait of Tycho Brahe stands in frame in the southern hemisphere near the constellation Phoenix.<\/p>

The two pairs of globes owned by the library are identical except in the stand: one pair has the original wooden stand, the other a later-era, metal stand.<\/p>

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