About World Globes

Vincenzo Coronelli, born in Venice in 1650, is regarded as one of Italy’s finest cartographers.  Coronelli was a cleric and encyclopedist with a particular interest in geography and cartography. He was author of more than 140 titles and produced several hundred maps.   As Royal Cartographer to King Louis XIV, Coronelli was granted access to the latest documentation sent from the colonies to the French Academy of Sciences.  His globe gores were produced to be assembled into spherical form and sold as complete globes, rare examples were kept aside to be published in sheet form.  Coronelli’s considerable works represented the pinnacle of geographic knowledge of the world in the late 17th century.