The Representation of the World
Antonio Santucci's Armillary Sphere
Reader in Mathematics at the University of Pisa, 1599-1612, Antonio Santucci was an astronomer and cosmographer to Grand Duke Ferdinand I (1549-1609) and ...
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Models of the Heavens
Since antiquity, astronomers have studied the movement of the stars, striving to reproduce the appearance of the heavens by means of suitable models. One ...
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Terrestrial and Celestial Globes
The humanists' interest in Ptolemy's Geography and the discovery of the New World favoured the rapid development of modern cartography thanks to the large ...
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The world map of Fra' Mauro
Fra' Mauro, a Camaldolese monk, was active in Venice toward the mid-fifteenth century. His world map depicts the image of the Earth prevailing before the ...
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Vincenzo Coronelli’s Globes
Six globes made by the Venetian cosmographer Vincenzo Maria Coronelli (1650-1718), famous for the great size of his creations, such as the globes nearly ...