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Terrestrial table globe RMG D7845 4
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Terrestrial table globe RMG D7845 4

Terrestrial table globe Terrestrial table globe. It forms a pair with the celestial globe, van Langren GLB0099. Geographical details on the sphere include loxodromes drawn for 32 compass points. Two locations for the magnetic pole are indicated and labelled; the North Polar area is drawn as four islands. There are notes on discoveries in America, the Indonesian Archipelago and in the hypothetical south polar continent. There are many decoration including ships, Neptune and monsters in the oceans, and in America there are animals and local inhabitants. A total of seven oceans are named. Only one other copy of the 325 mm terrestrial globe exists in Rome. The cartography is based on Gerard Mercator's world map of 1569 and Rumold Mercator's map of 1587. For full details about the cartography and construction of this globe please refer to the related publication. unavailable

Date
1589
Mapmaker / publisher
Arnold Floris van Langren
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
chart
Original size
1,944 × 1,280 pixels

Public domainsafest

Reason: its maker died more than 100 years ago.

Read from: Commons licence category: PD-old-100-expired; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.

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"Terrestrial table globe RMG D7845 4" (1589). Arnold Floris van Langren, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Terrestrial_table_globe_RMG_D7845_4.jpg

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