Globo terrestre / Cassini, Giovanni Maria / 1790

12 Globe Gores by Giovanni Maria Cassini, Published in Rome, 1790

Globo terrestre / Cassini, Giovanni Maria / 1790

Full Title: Globo terrestre / delineato sulle ultime osservazioni con i viaggi e nuove scoperte del Cap. Cook, inglese ; Gio. Ma. Cassini C.R.S. inc. Roma : Presso la Calcograf[i]a cam[era]le, 1790.

Author: Cassini, Giovanni Maria

Date: 1790

Cassini's gores are shown in the top image in their original printed form on four sheets. They were used to create a globe 34cm in diameter. The gores were digitally scanned and georeferenced to the WGS 1984 coordinate system in the middle image. In the bottom image they have been projected in GIS in the form of a virtual globe. The physical gores reside in the Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division. The georectifed map images were created by the David Rumsey Map Collection. The globe shows contemporary discoveries in the Pacific as well as the routes of three of Captain James Cook's voyages. Cassini was a cartographer and publisher in Rome. He was one of the last of the Italian globe makers active at the end of the 18th century.

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Full David Rumsey Map Collection Catalog Record:

Author: Cassini, Giovanni Maria

Date: 1790

Short Title: Globo terrestre

Publisher: Roma : Presso la Calcograf[i]a cam[era]le

Type: Globe gores

Obj Height cm: 59

Obj Width cm: 64

Scale 1: 35,000,000

Note: Relief shown pictorially. All sheets folded horizontally, with paper hinges on verso, and traces of color on edges. Some acid offset on gore sheets. Four sheets of gores and 1 sheet with zodiacs and 2 polar calottes. 1 map on 5 sheets : hand col. ; sheets 59 x 64 cm. Repository: Library of Congress Geography and Map Division (G3201_B71_1790) Appeared in the author's Nuovo atlante geografico universale delineate suelle ultime osservazioni, Roma : Presso la Calcografia Camerale, 1792-1801.

Reference: P670; Dekker, p. 66.

World Area: World

Full Title: Globo terrestre / delineato sulle ultime osservazioni con i viaggi e nuove scoperte del Cap. Cook, inglese ; Gio. Ma. Cassini C.R.S. inc. Roma : Presso la Calcograf[i]a cam[era]le, 1790.

List No: G3201_B71_1790

Series No: 1

Published In: Globo terrestre / delineato sulle ultime osservazioni con i viaggi e nuove scoperte del Cap. Cook, inglese ; Gio. Ma. Cassini C.R.S. inc. Roma : Presso la Calcograf[i]a cam[era]le, 1790

Publication Author: Cassini, Giovanni Maria

Publication Date: 1790

Publication Note: See note field above

Publication List No: G3201_B71_1790

Publication Type: Globe gores

Publication Maps: 1

Publication Height cm: 59

Publication Width cm: 64

Image No: G3201_B71_1790

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