The Measurers:
a Flemish Image of Mathematics in the Sixteenth Century
Figure 17
Geographical Globe
From Peter Apian and Gemma Frisius, Cosmographia, sive descriptio universi orbis (Antwerp, 1584)
(catalogue no. 2).
Note the quadrant, the pillar sundial, and tiny dipych sundial indicating the meridian.
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