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- Published / Created:
- [early 20th century]
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS 1486 (Oversize)
- Container / Volume:
- Box (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A photomechanical print probably created during the early twentieth century as a forgery that reproduces twelve gores for a globe published in 1507 by Martin Waldseemüller based on his wall map, Universalis Cosmographia (1507).
- Description:
- A gore is a roughly triangular or wedge-shaped segment of an object, as found in domes and globes, where a sector of a curved surface, or a curved surface that lies between two close lines of longitude on a globe, and flattened to a plane surface with...
- Subject (Geographic):
- America
- Subject (Name):
- Hauslab, Franz, 1798-1883., Vespucci, Amerigo, 1451-1512., and Waldseemüller, Martin, 1470-1519
- Subject (Topic):
- Forgeries, Globes, World maps, Discovery and exploration, and Name
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Globe gores forgery after Martin Waldseemüller].
