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Louis de Zoysa, Chief Interpreter to the Ceylon TRACTATUS DE GLOBIB ET EORUM USU; # treatise Government, containing Notes on the Jatakas, descriptive of the globes constructed by Emery chiefly in connection with the sculptures at Bharut, Molyneux and published in 1592. By ROBERT HUES
Edited with annotated Indices and an Introduction to which is attached a correspondence on the subject between the author, Sir Alexander Cun.
by CLEMENT R. MARKHAM, C.B., F.R.S. London,
Hakluyt Society. 1889. ningham, Prof. Max Müller, Mr. R. C. Childers, the Rev. Samuel Beal, and Mr. James Fergusson,
The name of the Society which has produced all bearing date 1874 and 1875, and a complete
this volume and of the eminent scholar who has list of the Pansiyapanas Jataka.
edited it are sufficient guarantee of its usefulness and excellence, and it will be unnecessary
here to do more than to give a brief notice of its PROCEEDINGS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE, October
contents. 1989, No. 152. Copp, Clark & Co., Ld. ; Toronto. In August 1889, the Canadian Institute issued
Helped by information received from the great a "Sociological Circular" with a view to collecting
English navigators and mathematicians of the and recording" reliable data respecting the
16th century and by funds from the great mer. political and social institutions, the customs, cere
chants of the day, Molyneux constructed and monies, beliefs, pursuits, modes of living, habits,
published his famous globes. To aid the many exchange, and the devolution of property and
who wished to study them, Robert Hues; the office, which obtain among the Indian peoples" of
celebrated mathematician, published his equally Canada. The circular gave a list of points upon
famous book on the use of the Globes. The
immense sensation caused in the days of Elizabeth which information was specially required, much in the manner of the Anthropological and Geo
by the globes and the tracts to explain them, graphical Societies of England. A very enrly
y lasted almost to our own boyhood, when a knowresponse to this was made by the Rev. Father
ledge of the use of the globes" was still an A. G. Morice of Stuart's Lake, British Columbia,
indispensable qualification in every household of in an admirable paper on the Western Denes,
persons moving in polite society. their manners and customs.
The first globes made were the celestial We have much pleasure in bringing this article ones whose origin is lost in myth and antiquity. to the notice of Indian readers, as so many of At any rate Posidonius, 150 B. C., constructed the manners and customs of these denizens of a revolving sphere to exhibit the motions of the extreme North-Western America corre. heavenly bodies; and in the second century A.D., spond closely in numerous instances with those
Ptolemy laid down rules for the construction of the Mongolian tribes across the sea in
of globes. Thenceforward history and numisNorthern Asia, and indeed among the Mongoloid
matics prove their existence and use among the races much further south.
Romans and Greeks, though the earliest exist.
ing globe is of Arabic origin, dated as late as The mode of dressing the hair, the method of
1070 A. D. washing the hands and face, the forms of the huts, some of the articles of food, the proceed. On the other hand the oldest terrestrial globe ings at banquets, the head-dress of the women, kuown is dated 1492, and was constructed by some of the amusements, all bear a close analogy Martin Behaim of Nuremberg. The only lines to those of the Tatars and Mughals. The on it are the equator, tropics, polar circles and rules of marriage and divorce again are practically the first meridian passing throngh Madeira. The those of the modern Burmese, except that the meridian is of iron. A brass horizon was added children in case of divorce go to the father and in 1500. From this globe of Behaim's construcnot to the mother, as with the Burmese.
tion Mr. Markham carries us through the exceed The customs relating to menstruation and
ingly interesting and instructive story of every parturition bear a most interesting resemblance
known globe, with passing notices of such astroto those of the ancient Hebrews, as detailet in
nomical and mathematical ginnts as Leonardo da Leviticus and Deuteronomy, and the treatment of
Vinci, Schöner, Gerard Mercator, Ulpius, Tyeho widows, for a time at least, is carried out much on
Brahe, Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Pontanus and the lines approved by orthodox Hindus.
Santucci to Molyneux. Altogether the article not only exhibits great Very little is known of Molyneux, the first local knowledge and research, but is one that English globe-maker, beyond that he was known should be known to all students of Orivatal to Raleigh, Hakluyt, Edward Wright and Jolin ethnology
Davis the Navigator. His work was first adver
