Globes at Greenwich
A Catalogue of the Globes and Armillary Spheres in the National Maritime Museum (review)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14527155 |
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| Authors | Emilie Savage-Smith, Emilie Savage‐smith (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 413-414 |
| Publication date | 2002-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Technology and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0040-165X • E-ISSN: 1097-3729 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/tech.2002.0089 |
| OpenAlex | W2063070895 |
| Language | EN |
The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich has the world's largest collection of globes and related instruments. This beautifully illustrated and well-executed volume catalogs 272 Western terrestrial or celestial globes, 12 Islamic celestial globes, 25 Western armillary spheres, 11 Western planetaria, and 19 celestial planispheres. The latter are included in the catalog because, in Europe during the nineteenth century, the planisphere came to replace the celestial globe
Archaeology · Astronomy · Geography · Globe · Greenwich · Physics · Geology · Historical Geography and Cartography · Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
| Highly cited | No |
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