Note 101 — Chapter XI · Globes of the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century
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Viaggi, del P. C. p. 28. He gives us in this work a statement of prices for his globes as follows:
“Globes of various sizes.
Celestial and terrestrial three and one half feet in diameter, with the addition of many stars and of newly discovered lands, painted and varnished, without supports, 100 ducats L.260:
The same with their supports and with meridian of brass 1240:
The same one foot and a half in diameter with their pedestals and with brass meridians 155:
The same six and a half inches diameter with feet and with meridisns L.31:
The same four and a half inches in diameter with their feet and with meridians 24:16:
The same two and a half inches in diameter with their feet and with meridians 18:12”