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Cassini’s Terrestrial Globe / Globo Terrestre di Cassini
Giovanni Maria Cassini (1745 – 1824) was an Italian globe maker, geographer, engraver, and cartographer. His main cartographic work was the Nuovo Atlante Geografico Universale of 1792-1801. In...
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Cassini’s Terrestrial and Celestial Globes (Christmas Balls version)
Giovanni Maria Cassini (1745-1824) was regarded as one of the last great Italian globemakers of the 18th century. Here, I present two 15 cm diameter globes in a Christmas ornament version. The larger...
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Nocturnal Celestial Globe / Globo Celeste Notturno
Petrus Plancius (Pieter Platevoet, 1552-1622) was a famous Flemish cartographer. He included new constellations in the austral celestial emisphere. In 1612, he drew 12 gores for a 14.5 cm...
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Celestial Globe from Ignace-Gaston Pardies’ Tables
[diameter of the Celestial Globe: 25 cm] Visit the David Rumsey Map Collection website to admire and download Pardies’ star and constellation maps. Another great website with a lot of information...
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The first time the word “America”…
… appeared on Earth. Globe diameter: 12 cm In 1901 Joseph Fisher, a Jesuit historian who was conducting research in in the library of Prince Johannes zu Waldburg- Wolfegg in Wolfegg Castle in...
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COELUM STELLATUM CHRISTIANUM (1660)
Whilst Kepler was studying the planets motion, his son-in-law Jacob Bartsch, astronomer, Wilhelm Schickard, the astronomer and professor of Oriental languages at Tübingen, and Julius Schiller (c. 1580...
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Coelum Stellatum Christianum (Christmas Ball Ornament)
Merry Christmas Happy 2015 Coelum stellatum Christianum (Christmas Ball Ornament) A new year full of paper to cut, fold and glue!
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“Blue Marble: Next Generation”. Twelve Earth Globes (Christmas Edition)
… In 1972, from a distance of about 45,000 km (28,000 mi), the crew of Apollo 17 took one of the most famous photographs ever made of the Earth. This original Blue Marble inspired later images of the...
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Cassini’s Celestial paper Globe on AstroMedia
I’m proud to announce that my project of Cassini’s Celestial paper Globe (Christmas Ball version) has just been published in a nice hard copy version by AstroMedia, specialized in cardboard kits of...
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Coronelli’s Celestial paper Globe (Christmas Ornament version)
Vincenzo Coronelli (August 16, 1650 – December 9, 1718) was a Franciscan friar, cosmographer, cartographer, publisher, and encyclopedist known in particular for his atlases and globes. He spent most of...
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