#Metasequoia subdivid pdf

That book contains several series of celestial (and terrestrial, too) gores for making globes of different size.

The first thing I did was to scan the pages of the “Libro dei Globi”. I will keep you updated on the progress of the project…Īlmost two years already passed since I published my first (and last) post on “Remaking the Heavens”. And it will be a little bit different from the other globes I designed so far. Obviously, being a paper model designer, the globe will be entirely made of paper, therefore the technique I will use for making it will be completely different from the classical one. The title of the project could seem too ambitious, though what I would like to do is the modern version of the past common practise of coloring the b/w prints by hand, often according to the wishes of the buyer. The project “Remaking the Heavens” consists in a large celestial paper globe (50 cm diam.) illustrated with digitally re-colored Coronelli’s gores from the “Libro dei Globi”, edited in Venice in 1701. (Amsterdam) in 1969, from the original Coronelli’s prints published in Venice in 1701. I could not wait anymore! I bought it from Sequitur Books (USA) and now, that big book is on my desk. My research stopped two months ago, when I met online the “Libro dei Globi”, a collection of fac-simile gores edited by Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Ltd. Though they have good resolution, the scans were roughly converted in B/W files, and some of them are compromised by the book binding. Coronelli, …”, edited in Paris in 1782, at the Bibliotèque Nationale de France website.

#Metasequoia subdivid pdf

The best I found was a pdf version of the “Atlas Céleste, composé d’un globe de douze pieds de circonférence, du P. For long time I surfed the web in searching for hi-res digital files representing celestial (and terrestrial) gores by Venetian cartographer Vincenzo Coronelli (1650-1718).