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Title Hanc terrae marisq[ue] faciem qui aspicis, sic inspice ne dispicias mutla hic mutata, sed nihil temere, quae nisi attendas, facle fugiant: ratio constructious in multis nova: sec proba. Gibbum plano, planum globo commuta vimus: duplicato labore sed [...]rtiori [...] ut ventorium spirae iustis p. orbem t[er]arum gyrys discurrerent, hinc factu[m] ut in omnibus terrae oris, praeter paralellocum & preridianorum, etiam plagae ratio nobis fuerit habenda: Quae quide[m] omnia, attento spectatori facile apparebunt / vale & truere Guilhelmus Ianßonius Blaeu auctor et sculptor
Author's Data Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, 1571-1638
Scale 1:39,000,000
Publisher [Amsterdam: Guilhelmus Ianßonius Blaeu, 1599]
Physical Description 1 globe: black and white, cooper, paper on plaster; 34 cm in diameter, in a box 39 x 39 x 44 cm
General Comments on the Globe Height Globe Height c. 34 cm
General Comments on the Prime Meridian Position The Prime Meridian passes through the Azores and the Canary Islands
General Comment Ornamental cartouch. Parerga provided with explanatory notes
Genre/Form Globes