Tadeusz Estreicher and the Jagiellonian globe

In 1902, the Krakow University academic Tadeusz Estreicher provided a translation of his paper on the Jagiellonian Globe of c.1510 to London-based Australian bibliographer Edward A. Petherick. The translation is now part of Petherick's papers, held by National Library of Australia. Although originally published in Polish by the Krakow Academy of Sciences in 1900, the publication of Estreicher's own English translation here is the first publication in English of what is still considered to be the basic study of the globe. Additional to his preface to the translation, the present author notes that the globe owes much to Martin Waldseem ller's world map of 1507, but that Estreicher's study was prepared before that map was revealed in 1901. The globe is shown to share with the map Waldseem ller's distinctive solution of representing within the 360 degrees of the Earth's circumference the location of East Asia according to both the Ptolemaic and Columban scales of longitude.