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John Senex

Globo celeste, Parigi 1720

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John Senex

Globo celeste, Parigi 1720

Con la seguente scheda la BNF presenta il globo celeste prodotto da John Senex e dalla sua équipe nel 1720:

Titolo : [Celestial globe / by John Senex]

Autore : Senex, John (1678?-1740). Cartographe

Editore : (London)

Data di edizione : 1720

Relazione : http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40673860r

Note(s) : Ce globe fait pendant au globe terrestre du même auteur (Ge A 278) et la monture en est semblable. Vers 1705-1727 selon Stevenson (S. L.), Terrestrial and celestial globes, t. II, p. 151, revu pour 1720 par Duprat, n° 189. - Hauteur totale, 1 m 03, diamètre total, 0 m 60. - Aa IX. - Exp 1875, 388. - Exp 1889, 258. - Exp 1912, 202

Lingua : inglese

Formato : 1 globe : en vert et or ; diam. 40 cm

Formato : image/jpeg

Formato : Nombre total de vues : 4

Formato : model/x3d+xml

Descrizione : Numérisé en 3D - Version numérique 3D : © DNP Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. [2015] - origine de la source : BnF.

Descrizione : Collection numérique : Globes (terrestres, célestes et en fuseaux)

Identificativo : ark:/12148/btv1b550087505

Segnatura : Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Cartes et plans, GE A-279 (RES)

Provenienza : Bibliothèque nationale de France

Data di pubblicazione online : 30/03/2015

John Senex, London 1720

Il globo celeste

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Biografia di Senex per cortesia della Daniel Crouch Rare Books

John Senex

(1678–1740)

John Senex was one of the most important English mapmakers and publishers of the first half of the eighteenth century. He was apprenticed to the important bookseller and publisher Robert Clavell, but an early association with Jeremiah Seller and Charles Price diverted him to a career as surveyor, cartographer, globemaker, mapseller and map publisher. Such was his contribution to the development of the British map trade in his lifetime, that he was honoured and recognised in 1728 by his election to the Royal Society, sponsored by some of the greatest scientists of the period.

His early career was relatively inauspicious; he worked in association with Jeremiah Seller and Charles Price sr. for three years until the arrangement was ended by their bankruptcy around 1706. From then until about 1710 he worked with Charles Price; during this period, it is assumed that Price taught him surveying and engraving. Together Price and Senex announced proposals for an atlas of two-sheet maps of the world, a rival project to that by Herman Moll; when the partnership ended, Senex went on to publish his own version while Price worked with George Willdey on a similar atlas. Senex’s atlas, originally entitled ‘The English Atlas’ (1714), was one of the most successful atlases of the day, remaining in print into the 1760s and possibly beyond.

Senex also worked as a jobbing engraver, and gradually became semi-official engraver to the Royal Society, to its printer William Taylor, with whom Senex was to work closely, and to leading figures within the Society, including Sir Edmund Halley and William Whiston; thus, Senex was to publish several important scientific maps, notably Halley and Whiston’s eclipse maps for the 1715 and 1724 eclipses, while this connection also provided the latest scientific data for his extensive range of terrestrial and celestial globes.

With this solid foundation, Senex’s business went on to become the most prestigious mapmaker and publisher in the 1730s, and one of the largest. He published a series of notable maps, and a sequence of posthumous catalogues issued by his widow and successor Mary Senex lists the most important.

His stock-in-trade passed to his widow Mary, who continued the business until 1755, when she retired; William Herbert and Robert Sayer acquired the map stock, and James Ferguson the globe business.

Alcuni altri globi celesti, spesso in copia con quello terrestre, prodotto nell’officina di Senex

Globi di Harvard del 1715:

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