Название: Globes: 400 Years of Exploration, Navigation, and Power
Автор(ы): Sylvia Sumira
Издательство: The University of Chicago Press
Год: 2014
ISBN: 978-0-226-13914-2
Страниц: 231
Язык: English
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 22 MB
The concept of the earth as a sphere has been around for centuries, emerging around the time of Pythagoras in the sixth century BC, and eventually becoming dominant as other thinkers of the ancient world, including Plato and Aristotle, accepted the idea. The first record of an actual globe being made is found in verse, written by the poet Aratus of Soli, who describes a celestial sphere of the stars by Greek astronomer Eudoxus of Cnidus (ca. 408355 BC). The oldest surviving globea celestial globe held up by Atlas s shouldersdates back to 150 AD, but in the West, globes were not made again for about a thousand years. It was not until the fifteenth century that terrestrial globes gained importance, culminating when German geographer Martin Behaim created what is thought to be the oldest surviving terrestrial globe. In "Globes: 400 Years of Exploration, Navigation, and Power," Sylvia Sumira, beginning with Behaim s globe, offers a authoritative and striking illustrated history of the subsequent four hundred years of globe making.
