Terrestrial table globe

Terrestrial table globe. Geographical details on the sphere are the same as Greuter, GLB0082. There are compass roses, but no loxodromes are drawn. California is shown as a peninsular. In North America there are labels for 'FRETNUM DAVIS' and 'Nieu Nederland', and in Asia the Great Wall of China is drawn. Around the South Pole there is a label for a hypothetical southern continent. There are decorative scenes, ships and monsters in the oceans.

There are nine notes on discoveries, for example, in North America within a decorative cartouche; and in South America, around Cape Horn and in the hypothetical southern continent inside a cartouche with a globe depicted on top of it and two navigators at the sides, one with a cross-staff and the other with a quadrant. A total of 11 oceans are named.

Most of the texts on discoveries are copied from Blaeu's 680 mm terrestrial globe, GLB0104. The stand for this globe is a later replacement. For full details about the cartography and construction of this globe please refer to the related publication.

Object Details

ID: GLB0158
Collection: Astronomical and navigational instruments; Charts and maps
Type: Table globe
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Greuter, Matthaeus
Date made: 1632
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Caird Collection
Measurements: Overall: 702 x 680 mm; Diameter of sphere: 490 mm
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