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Globe by Willem Jansz Blaeu, Amsterdam, after 1621. Detail: part of North-America with natives.
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Globe by Willem Jansz Blaeu, Amsterdam, after 1621. Detail: part of North-Am...

Globe by Willem Jansz Blaeu, Ansterdam, After 1621 Detail: The "giants" of Patagonia.
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Globe by Willem Jansz Blaeu, Ansterdam, After 1621 Detail: The "giants" of...

Globe by James Ferguson, London, around 1750. Ferguson re-edited the famous globes by Senex (after 1702), left out quotes and images, except for the discoverer's heart-felt sigh: "Here brandy freezes by the fire" Detail: Greenland.
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Globe by James Ferguson, London, around 1750. Ferguson re-edited the f...

Celestial globe by Joseph Jerome Lalande, 1775. Detail: the unicorn.
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Celestial globe by Joseph Jerome Lalande, 1775. Detail: the unicorn.

Celestial globe by Joseph Jerome Lalande, 1775 Detail: the furnace
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Celestial globe by Joseph Jerome Lalande, 1775 Detail: the furnace

Celestial globe by Joseph Jerome Lalande, 1775 Detail: the sculptor's studio
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Celestial globe by Joseph Jerome Lalande, 1775 Detail: the sculptor's s...

Celestial globe by Joseph Jerome Lalande, 1775 Detail: the virgin.
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Celestial globe by Joseph Jerome Lalande, 1775 Detail: the virgin.

Globe by Daniel Friedrich Sotzmann, Nuernberg, 1792 Detail: Australia; Tasmania is still connected to the Australian mainland; Cook's travels are shown, but not his discovery of Antartica.
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Globe by Daniel Friedrich Sotzmann, Nuernberg, 1792 Detail: Australia; Tasma...

Joan Blaeu's "Atlas Major", published in Amsterdam in 1662, consists of 593 plates bound in nine to twelve volumes. The frontispiece of volume I,1663, shows science (or geography) led in triumph by the four continents.
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Joan Blaeu's "Atlas Major", published in Amsterdam in 1662, consists of 593 pla...

Joan Blaeu's "Atlas Major", published in Amsterdam in in 1662, consists of 593 plates bound in nine to twelve volumes. Introduction to volume I: "the earth is in the center of the universe..", this despite the fact that Copernicus put the sun in the center around 1520.
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Joan Blaeu's "Atlas Major", published in Amsterdam in in 1662, consists of 593...

Joan Blaeu's "Atlas Major", published in Amsterdam in 1662, consists of 593 plates bound in nine to twelve volumes. Engravings in volume one show Tycho Brahe's instruments in his observatory in Denmark. An armillary sphere.
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Joan Blaeu's "Atlas Major", published in Amsterdam in 1662, consists of 593...

Joan Blaeu's "Atlas Major", published in Amsterdam in 1662, consists of 593 plates bound in nine to twelve volumes. Engravings in volume one show Tycho Brahe's instruments in his observatory in Denmark. An armillary sphere.
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Joan Blaeu's "Atlas Major", published in Amsterdam in 1662, consists of 593...