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MapLa sphere artificielle ou armilaire oblique : elevée sur l'horizon a la latitude de Paris Includes diagrams of the Copernican, Brahean, Cartesian, and Ptolemaic systems, maps of the Sun and Moon, Venus, Mercury, Mars and Jupiter, and two diagrams showing the Earth's parallels. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy stamped on verso: 3641. Trimmed and mounted in right margin, another image of an armillary sphere: La sphere du monde, selon...
- Contributor: Starckman, P. - Fer, Nicolas De - Picart, Bernard
- Date: 1716
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Map[Collection of nine images including astronomical instruments, celestial charts, and a world map]. Title devised by cataloger. English, French and Latin. James Ferguson article from Gent. Mag. March 1769. Nine printed images and two panels of printed text mounted on paper within hand drawn frames colored yellow. From various sources, unidentified except for the Ferguson article. Mounted on cloth and stamped in blue ink in lower left margin: 312A. Available also through the Library of Congress Web...
- Contributor: Ferguson, James
- Date: 1769
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MapIntroduction a la géographie: carte des diverses positions de la sphere, des systhèmes de l'Univers, des planettes, des eclypses &.
Carte des diverses positions de la sphere, des systhèmes de l'Univers, des planettes, des eclypses & Appears in Didier Robert de Vaugondy's Atlas d'étude, pour l'instruction de la jeunesse, composé de trente-cinq cartes. A Paris : Chez C.F. Delamarche, Géographe, rue du Foin S. Jacques, au Collège de Me. Gervais, 1797. Includes "Sphere Armillaire oblique," "Globe celeste", "Globe terrestre", and diagrams of systems by Ptolemy, Copernicus, Tycho Brahe and Descartes; diagrams of solar and lunar eclipses and 12 illustrations of...- Contributor: Delafosse, Jean-Baptiste - Robert De Vaugondy, Didier - Delamarche, Charles François
- Date: 1791