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• Title:A renaissance globemaker's toolbox : Johannes Schöner and the revolution of modern science, 1475-1550 / John W. Hessler.
  
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• Variant Title:Renaissance globe maker's toolbox
  Globemaker's toolbox
  Globe maker's toolbox
  
• Author/Creator:Hessler, John W.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Library of Congress, issuing body.
  D. Giles Limited, publisher.
  Antique Collectors Club Ltd., distributor
  
• Published/Created:Washington, DC : Library of Congress ; London : In association with D. Giles Ltd., 2013.
  

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  • Location:RARE BOOKS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: GA873.5.S3 H47 2013
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    
  • Links:Donor bookplate
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Schöner, Johann, 1477-1547.
  Cartography--History.
  
• Description:176 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 20 x 24 cm
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781907804168 (alk. paper)
  1907804161 (alk. paper)
  9780844495514 (alk. paper)
  0844495514 (alk. paper)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 12 Sheets of the Waldseemuller 1507 World Map
  13 Sheets of the Waldseemuller 1516 Carta marina, including Schoner manuscript
  Celestial globe gores
  Terrestrial gore fragments
  Celestial gore fragments
  Durer-Stabius star chart
  ch. 1 Cartography in the Margins: How Johannes Schoner Read His Haps
  ch. 2 Johannes Schoner Makes a Globe
  ch. 3 It's All in the Stars: Natal Astrology and Johannes Schoner's Three Books
  ch. 4 Earth Begins to Move: Rheticus and the Early Reception of Copernican Astronomy.