International Coronelli Society for the Study of Globes

The International Coronelli Society for the Study of Globes (German: Internationale Coronelli-Gesellschaft für Globenkunde) is a non-profit academic organization devoted to the analysis, restoration and comprehensive study of terrestrial and celestial globes and other cosmographical instruments, such as armillary spheres and planetaria, mainly made before 1850. == History == Founded in Vienna in 1952 by the Austrian engineer and private scholar Robert Haardt (1884–1962), the Society's name is an hommage to Franciscan friar, cosmographer, cartographer, and publisher Vincenzo Coronelli (1650–1718).

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