351 Fiorini. Sfere terrestri e celesti. p. 221. The author briefly describes the Plautus globes. The information contained therein was also kindly sent for insertion in this work by the director of the Museum.

352 Gerland. Beitrage. p. 69. See Chap. viii, n. 21.

353 Fiorini, op. cit., pp. 200-202.

354 Gassendi, P. Tychonis Brahei equitis Dani astronomorum coryphaei vita. Hagae, 1655; Dreyer, J. L. E. Tycho Brahe, a picture of scientific life and work in the sixteenth century. Edinburgh, 1890; Brahe, T. Astronomiae instauratae mechanica. Noribergae, 1602; Brahe, T. Epistolarum astronomicarum libri. Uraniburgi, 1596; Brahe, T. Tychonis Brahe mathim: eminent: Dani Opera Omnia. Ed. by J. G. Schonvetteri, Francofurti, 1648; Wolf. Geschichte der Astronomie. pp. 269-281; Kästner. Geschichte der Mathematik. Vol. II, pp. 376-411.

355 Dreyer, op. cit., Chaps. v, vi.

356 Tyconis Brahe astronomiae instauratae Mechanica.

357 Raemdonck. Les sphères terrestres. p. 28; Chatel, M. Note sur une globe terrestre ... de la succession de Titon du Tillet. (In: Mémoire lus à la Sorbonne. Paris, 1865. pp. 161-170.)

358 Marcel, G. Note sur une sphère terrestre faite en cuivre à la fin du XVIe Siècle. (In: Bulletin de la Société normande de Géographie. Rouen, 1891. pp. 153-160.)

359 Humboldt, A. Examen Critique. Paris, 1836-1839. Vol. II, pp. 152-155; Harrisse. Discovery, pp. 657-658.

360 Hakluyt, R. The principal Navigations, Voyages and Discoveries of the English Nation. London, 1589.

361 Hood, D. The use of both the Globes, celestial and terrestrial, most plainly delivered in the form of a dialogue. London, 1592.

362 Blundeville, T. Mr. Blundeville his Exercises. London, 1594.

363 See above, p. 193.

364 The several editions of this work are given by Markham, C. Hues, Treatise on Globes, pp. xxxvii-xl.

365 Allgemeine deutsche Biographie “Bürgi, Jobst”; Doppelmayr, op. cit., p. 163; Wolf, R. Bürgi. (In: Biograph. z. Kulturgeschichte, 1 Zyklus, pp. 57 ff.); Weidler, F. Historia astronomiae. Vitembergae, 1741. p. 375; Gerland, op. cit., p. 68.

366 Marcel, G. Note sur une mission géographique en Suisse. (In: Bulletin de la Société de Géographie. Paris, 1899. pp. 76-94.)

367 Fischer, J. The globe-goblet of Wolfegg. (In: United States Catholic Historical Society Historical Records and Studies. New York, 1913. pp. 275-279.) See for mention of other Gessner globe cups.

368 A sixteenth century globe cup. (In: Royal Geographical Journal. London, 1919. pp. 196-197.) This particular globe of Gessner was sold at Christie’s in London, July 23, 1919, for £3800. It is thought to have been made in the year 1595. Attention is called in this article to a globe cup in the British Museum, dated 1569.

369 Beazley, C. R. Globe of 1593. (In: Royal Geographical Journal. London, 1904. pp. 496-498.)

370 Poggendorff, J. C. Biographisch-literarisches Handwörterbuch. Leipzig, 1863; Kästner, op. cit., p. 393; Génard, P. Les Globes du géographe Arnauld Florent van Langren et de Guill. Blaeu. (In: Bulletin de la Société Royale Géographie d’Anvers. Anvers, 1883. pp. 150 ff.; Van der Aa.)

371 Wieder, F. C. De Globe van Van Langren Ao 1612. (In: Kon. Nederlandsch Aardrijkskundig Genootschap, 2e Série Dl. XXXII, 1915, pp. 231-239.)

372 Jonge, J. K. J. de. Opkomst van het Nederlandsch gezag in Oost-Indie. Gravenhage, 1862. Vol. I, p. 179. The author gives here a report rendered by J. Hondius in which he refers to the superiority of his globes to those of Van Langren. The report is dated 1597.

373 Wieder, op. cit., n. 36 above, is a description of this globe with illustrations.

374 Meucci, F. La Sfera armillere di Tolomeo construita da Antonia Santucci. Firenze, 1876.

Base of Apianus Globe, 1576.