[Celestial globe]

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Title: [Celestial globe]
Varying form of Title: [Globus stelliferus]
Inventor: Verbiest, Ferdinand, 1623-1688
Draftsman: Verbiest, Ferdinand, 1623-1688
Other personalities: [Verbiest, Ferdinand, 1623-1688 (author of book)]
Medium: Graphic
Date of publication: [1668]
Physical description: 1 print : Woodcut ; plate mark 313 x 320 mm. on sheet 401 x 227 mm.
Materials: Chinese paper
Language: Chinese
Country: China
Inscriptions: [in Chinese]
Annotations: Table [7] of: Verbiest, Ferdinand, 1623-1688, Liber Organicus
Curatorial Comment: Print spread over a double page. Latin title from Verbiest himself in other manuscript.
Conservation: Good
Topical Term: Astronomical instruments
Location: Biblioteca Corsiniana
: Fondo Corsini
: 33.H.15,vol.1,tav.[7]
Series: Link to mother card
Series' component: 33.H.15,vol.1,tav.[1]-vol.2,tav.[105]
Album: Link to album description
Album's component: 33.H.15
Bibliography: Noël Golvers and Efthymios Nicolaidis, Ferdinand Verbiest and Jesuit Science in 17th century China. An annotated edition and translation of the Constantinople manuscript (1676), Leuven Chinese Studies, 19, Leuven, 2009.
Link: Bibliographic references

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