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Sphaerae mundi : early globes at the Stewart Museum /
"Beginning in the Renaissance to well into the nineteenth century, finely crafted, scientifically valuable, and aesthetically sumptuous terrestrial and celestial globes held a place of honour in the libraries and cabinets of curiosities of the aristocracy, wealthy merchants, and centres of rese...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Sillery, Qué.] : [Montréal, Qué.] :
Septentrion ; [McGill-Queen's University Press],
[2000]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Beginning in the Renaissance to well into the nineteenth century, finely crafted, scientifically valuable, and aesthetically sumptuous terrestrial and celestial globes held a place of honour in the libraries and cabinets of curiosities of the aristocracy, wealthy merchants, and centres of research and learning. Over the past thirty years the Stewart Museum in Montreal has assembled one of North America's most important collections of these now-rare and fascinating objects. In Spaerae Mundi Edward Dahl and Jean-Francois Gauvin tell the stories of these globes, explaining their iconography and introducing us to the most important European globe makers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries."--Jacket |
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| Notas: | Issued also in French under title: Sphaerae mundi : la collection de globes anciens du Musée Stewart. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (203 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-199) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780773569072 0773569073 1282859196 9781282859197 9786612859199 6612859199 |