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[180] Las Casas. Historia. Tomo IV, lib. III, cap. ci, p.

377; Herrera, A. Descriptione las Indias Ocidentales.

Madrid, 1730. Tomo II, lib. II, cap. xix, p. 52.

[181] The first voyage around the world by Magellan. Tr. by Stanley of Alderley, Lord. London, 1874. (In: Hakluyt Society Publications. London, 1874. Vol. 52, p. xliv.); Pigafetta, Antonio. Magellan's Voyage around the world. The original text of the Ambrosian MS., with English translation, notes, bibliography, and index. Ed. by Robertson, J. A. Cleveland, 1906.

[182] Doc.u.mentos ineditos por la Historia de Espana. Madrid, 1847. Vol. I, p. 265.

[183] Harrisse, op. cit., p. 544.

[184] Doppelmayr. Nachrichten. pp. 45-50; Varnhagen, F. A.

de. Jo. Schoner e P. Apia.n.u.s (Benewitz) influencia de um e outro e de varios de seus contemporaneos na adopco do nome America. Vienna, 1872; Stevens, H. Johann Schoner, professor of Mathematics at Nuremberg; a reproduction of his globe of 1523 long lost; his dedicatory letter to Reymer von Streytperck and the 'De Moluccis' of Maximilia.n.u.s Transylva.n.u.s, with a new translation and notes of the globe.

Ed. with an introduction and bibliography by Coote, C. H.

London, 1888. pp. x.x.xix-xliv contains a short biography of Schoner; Algemeine Deutsche Biographie, ”Schoner.”

[185] Harrisse. B.A.V. No. 80. The full t.i.tle with bibliographical references are here given. In addition to the mere t.i.tle we read ”c.u.m Globis cosmographicis: sub mulcta quinquaginta florenorum Rhen. et amissione omnium exemplarium.” ”With a cosmographical globe: under a fine of five hundred Rhenish florins and forfeiting all copies.”

[186] Wieser. Magalhaes-Stra.s.se. See especially chap. iii, ”Der Globus Schoners vom J. 1515,” and reproduction, pl. II; Reproduction in Jomard, Nos. 15-16.

[187] Harrisse. B.A.V. p. xlix, note 156; also Nos. 99, 100.

[188] Stevenson. Martin Waldseemuller and the early Lusitano-Germanic Cartography.

[189] Schoner. Luculentissima. fol. 60.

[190] Schoner. Luculentissima. verso of fol. 60.

[191] Wieser, op. cit.; Ghillany. Geschichte des Seefahrers Ritter Martin Behaim. pp. 8-12. Ghillany reproduces the western hemisphere of the globe in the original colors; Kohl, J. G. History of the Discovery of Maine. (In: Doc.u.mentary history of the State of Maine. Portland, 1869.) Vol. I, pp. 158-163. This contains a much reduced reproduction of Ghillany's facsimile of the western hemisphere; Nordenskiold, op. cit., p. 80; Santarem. Atlas.

pl. 52 (H. S. A. copy); Lelewel. Geographie du moyen age.

pl. 46.

[192] The inscription reads as given by Ghillany.

[193] Practically all of the works cited relating to Schoner treat more or less fully of the geographical features of Schoner's globes. Wieser's work is particularly valuable.

[194] Stevens, op. cit., gives this letter in facsimile with translation; Wieser, op. cit., pp. 118-122, reprints the Latin of this letter.

[195] Harrisse, op. cit., pp. 519-528.

[196] Wieser, op. cit., p. 121.

[197] Oberhummer, E. Leonardo da Vinci and the art of the renaissance in its relation to geography. (In: The Geographical Journal. London, 1909. See pp. 561-569 on Albrecht Durer.)

[Ill.u.s.tration: Honter Globe. _From his Rudimenta cosmographica_]

Chapter VII

Globes of the Second Quarter of the Sixteenth Century

Globes indicating (a) an Asiatic connection of the New World, (b) globes expressing a doubt of such Old World connection, (c) globes showing an independent position of the New World.-Franciscus Monachus.-Hakluyt's reference.-The Gilt globe.-Parmentier.-Francesco Libri.-Nancy globe.-Globes of Gemma Frisius.-Robertus de Bailly.-Schoner globe of 1533.-Scheipp.-Furtembach.-Paris Wooden globe.-Vopel globes.-Santa Cruz.-Hartmann gores.-Important globe of Ulpius.-Cardinal Bembo's globes.-Mercator's epoch-making activity.-Fracastro.-Ramusio's references to globes.-Gianelli.-Florence celestial globe.