Note 150 — Chapter XII · Globes and Globe Makers of the First Half of the Eighteenth Century—from Delisle to Ferguson

This was a translation of Bion’s Traité de la construction et des principaux usages des instruments de mathématique, to which he gave a general title ‘Neueröfnete mathematische Werkschule.’ Leipzig, 1713. To the title of a later edition of this translation was prefixed, “Dritte Eröfnung,” Nürnberg, 1741. The reference is to a technical school of Nürnberg.