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stampate dal anno 1704, dal P. M. C. ... publicate dall' Accademia degli Argonauti in aggiunta dell' indice gia dato in luce. Venetia, 1708.

[90] Not until the following century does it appear that such societies were organized north of the Alps.

[91] See list given by Coronelli, Epitome, in introductory pages under heading ”Catalogo ...”

[92] See Coronelli. Epitome.

[93] This privilege is quoted by Coronelli, Epitome, in introductory pages.

[94] Coronelli. Epitome, pp. 334-342.

[95] La Hire, P. de. Description et explication des Globes qui sont places dans les pavillons du Chateau de Marly par ordre de Sa Majeste. Paris, 1704.

[96] Born September 16, 1638.

[97] Ludolf, H. Jobi Ludolfi ... ad suam historiam Aetiopicam ante hac editam commentarius. Francforti ad Moenum, 1691. p. 22.

[98] Marcel, G. Les Portugais dans l'Africe Australe. (In: Revue de Geographie. Paris, 1890.)

[99] This chateau was erected in the year 1693.

[100] Cited by Fiorini, op. cit., p. 338.

[101] Viaggi, del P. C. p. 28. He gives us in this work a statement of prices for his globes as follows:

”Globes of various sizes.

Celestial and terrestrial three and one half feet in diameter, with the addition of many stars and of newly discovered lands, painted and varnished, without supports, 100 ducats L.260:

The same with their supports and with meridian of bra.s.s 1240:

The same one foot and a half in diameter with their pedestals and with bra.s.s meridians 155:

The same six and a half inches in diameter with feet and with meridians L.31:

The same four and a half inches in diameter with their feet and with meridians 24:16

The same two and a half inches in diameter with their feet and with meridians 18:12”

[102] Fiorini, op. cit., p. 378.

[103] Fiorini, op. cit., p. 379.

[104] Fiorini, op. cit., p. 370.

[105] Porena, F. Un cartografo italiano del principio del secolo XVIII. (In: Memorie della Societa geog. ital. Roma, 1895. Vol. V, pt. 1, p. 45.)

[106] Published in Mediolani, 1712.

[107] Bernardo, F. da Bologna. Biblioteca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum S. Francisci Capucinorum. Venetiis, 1747.

[108] Doppelmayr, op. cit., p. 127.