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XVII. As geography cannot be well underltood 

 without having the objects before our eyes, it is 

 apparent that good maps and charts are indif- 

 penfably necefiary to this icience ; and as it is 

 necefiary to comprehend and remember what we 

 fee, it is therefore equally neceflary to have com- 

 plete treadles, as well as abridgments, on this 

 lubjcdl. It is not known who was the original 

 inventor of the globe or fphere. John Albert 

 Fabriciushas collected, in his Greek Bibliotheque, 

 1. iv. c. 14. the names of thofe authors who 

 have treated on ihe globes , and D. Hauber, a 

 German, has given the hiftory of maps. If it 

 be true, that the two globes or balls, in Solomon's 

 temple, were aftronomic or geographic globes, 

 they are doubtlefs the moil ancient of which 

 we have any account. According to Diodorus 

 Siculus, Atlas, king of Mauritania, was the firft 

 who invented a fphere ; which gave rife to the 

 {lory that Atlas fupported the heavens on hi$ 

 fhoulders, and was transformed into a moun- 

 tain. Among the moderns we know of none 

 before thofe made by Martin Behaim of Nu- 

 remberg and Jerome Fracaftor. Since their 

 time they have been made by de Hond, Bleau, 

 - alck, de I /Ilk, Moll, \\Vi- 

 gei, Beyer, Andrea;, Doppdmayer, Pufchner, 

 Lowits, and many oilier celebrated geographers. 

 There have been lome globes conftrucled of full 

 vc feet in diameter. 



XVIII. \Vith 



