Contextualising the Arabic Nomenclature of Coronelli’s Celestial Globe at the Biblioteca Federiciana in Fano

• Autores: Celeste Gianni, George Saliba, Michele Tagliabracci
• Localización: Suhayl: journal for the history or the exact and natural sciences in Islamic Civilisation, ISSN 1576-9372, Nº. 16-17, 2018-2019, págs. 323-343
• Idioma: catalán
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  • At the end of the 17th century, different editions of the terrestrial and celestial globes by the geographer and cosmographer Vincenzo Coronelli (1650-1718) were circulating all around Europe. After the production of two large globes (384 cm in diameter) for Louis XIV (1681-1683), Coronelli’s pair of terrestrial and celestial globes had acquired enough prestige to hit the market as geographical and astronomical instruments, but also as grand decorative and collectible objects.