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original of the treatise but also attended lectures made more up-to-
date by demonstrations on the globe. On the terrestrial globe the
newly discovered continents were already outlined, and the celestial
globe showed all the constellations. In his will Celtes offered both
globes to Vienna University, just as Bylica left his instruments to
the University at Cracow.
In Celtes’ last will there is the following passage 76:
tunc enim clarissimus vir, philosophiae magister et poeta laureatus Chunradus
Celtis ex testamento librosque plurimos et non vulgares atque eciam globos
duos mathematicos facultati relinquit. Pro quibus cathenandis struitur ligneum
in bibliotheca cancellum, ut cernatur.
Unfortunately the globes of Celtes, as so many other valuable
scientific instruments, have been lost and by the eighteenth century
they were no longer in existence. What was their appearance? The
terrestrial globe was probably similar to the so-called Jagiellonian
Globe of about 1510, which today is considered as the earliest in
existence on which the word „America” was inscribed. The appea-
rance of the celestial globe can be reconstructed with much proba-
bility from the celestial maps discovered by Voss in 1943.
We learn from the Inventarium arcae ferreae Universitatis Vien-
nensis 77 kept in the Archives of that university that in 1754 the
so-called chest of Celtes contained, besides some documents, a seal,
a scholar’s bonnet, and „ein messigener compass in futterall”, but
the globes were no longer there. We know exactly what was the
appearance of some of the objects that were in the chest in 1754
because H. Burgkmair showed them on a woodcut illustration
of 1504 to the poem Rhapsodia, laudes et victoria de Boemannis
written by Celtes 78. On this woodcut there is a professor’s bonnet,
a wand belonging to the faculty with an imperial eagle on it, a ring,
the poet’s laurel wreath, and in the top right-hand corner a reproduc-
tion of the seal with the inscription „Collegium Poetarum et Mathe-
maticorum”. It is the strangest seal ever adopted by a body asso-
ciated with a university in Christian Europe. The usual custom was
to choose some saint as patron, whereas the seal shows Mercury
playing the flute and Apollo killing a serpent. These bizarre, partly
medieval representations of gods (for instance, Mercury instead of
78 Acta Facultatis Artium, IV, 66b., 1509.
77 Cod. 81, pp. 80—82.
78 Voss, op. cit., reproduces the woodcut on p. 144, Fig. 19.
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original of the treatise but also attended lectures made more up-to-
date by demonstrations on the globe. On the terrestrial globe the
newly discovered continents were already outlined, and the celestial
globe showed all the constellations. In his will Celtes offered both
globes to Vienna University, just as Bylica left his instruments to
the University at Cracow.
In Celtes’ last will there is the following passage 76:
tunc enim clarissimus vir, philosophiae magister et poeta laureatus Chunradus
Celtis ex testamento librosque plurimos et non vulgares atque eciam globos
duos mathematicos facultati relinquit. Pro quibus cathenandis struitur ligneum
in bibliotheca cancellum, ut cernatur.
Unfortunately the globes of Celtes, as so many other valuable
scientific instruments, have been lost and by the eighteenth century
they were no longer in existence. What was their appearance? The
terrestrial globe was probably similar to the so-called Jagiellonian
Globe of about 1510, which today is considered as the earliest in
existence on which the word „America” was inscribed. The appea-
rance of the celestial globe can be reconstructed with much proba-
bility from the celestial maps discovered by Voss in 1943.
We learn from the Inventarium arcae ferreae Universitatis Vien-
nensis 77 kept in the Archives of that university that in 1754 the
so-called chest of Celtes contained, besides some documents, a seal,
a scholar’s bonnet, and „ein messigener compass in futterall”, but
the globes were no longer there. We know exactly what was the
appearance of some of the objects that were in the chest in 1754
because H. Burgkmair showed them on a woodcut illustration
of 1504 to the poem Rhapsodia, laudes et victoria de Boemannis
written by Celtes 78. On this woodcut there is a professor’s bonnet,
a wand belonging to the faculty with an imperial eagle on it, a ring,
the poet’s laurel wreath, and in the top right-hand corner a reproduc-
tion of the seal with the inscription „Collegium Poetarum et Mathe-
maticorum”. It is the strangest seal ever adopted by a body asso-
ciated with a university in Christian Europe. The usual custom was
to choose some saint as patron, whereas the seal shows Mercury
playing the flute and Apollo killing a serpent. These bizarre, partly
medieval representations of gods (for instance, Mercury instead of
78 Acta Facultatis Artium, IV, 66b., 1509.
77 Cod. 81, pp. 80—82.
78 Voss, op. cit., reproduces the woodcut on p. 144, Fig. 19.
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