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Anonymous Globe Gores, ca. 1540.

      Fig. 44a. Anonymous Globe Gores, ca. 1540.

      How Schöner, and others, came to the conclusion that “Parias” (North America) is not “a large independent portion of the earth in that fourth part of the world,” but has an Asiatic connection, and how they set down that conclusion in their maps will receive consideration in the following chapter.

      Fig. 45. Stabius World Globe Map, 1515.

      Dürer likewise undertook the drafting and engraving of a celestial map (Fig. 46), than which of this character there appears to be none earlier known. It was not so drawn as to make possible its application to the surface of a sphere, but its reshaping for that purpose could not have been for him a difficult proposition. He, with others of this time, was giving thought to the problem of globe-gore construction.

      Fig. 46. Northern Celestial Hemisphere of Albrecht Dürer.

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      124 The illustrations given are typical, and to one familiar with the works of the period on geographical and astronomical subjects, others suggest themselves.

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