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| | | | |  | Drake Coronelli GlobeVincenzo Coronelli, born in Venice in 1650, is regarded as one of Italy's finest cartographers. His construction of two globes for the Duke of Parma earned him an invitation to Paris, where a pair of globes built for King Louis XIV were of such a grand scale that they were constructed with trapdoors so craftsmen could enter and work from the inside. 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. Also producing printed globe gores and pocket-sized globes, Coronelli's considerable works represented the pinnacle of geographic knowledge of the world in the late 17th century.
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