Globes
Paper globes reconstructed from historical cartography and printable globe gores. This section collects paperPino projects that transform maps into three-dimensional globes, combining historical sources, cartographic context and downloadable files for construction.
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Coelum Stellatum Christianum: a Christianized Celestial Globe after Cellarius (1660)
A printable celestial globe based on Julius Schiller’s Christianized constellations and the richly illustrated hemispheres published by Andreas Cellarius in the Harmonia Macrocosmica.
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Ignace-Gaston Pardies’ Celestial Globe: a Printable Sky from 1693
A printable 25 cm celestial globe reconstructed from Ignace-Gaston Pardies’ six star charts, first published in 1674 and reissued in 1693 as a gnomonic atlas of the heavens.
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Nocturnal Celestial Globe
Petrus Plancius — Pieter Platevoet (1552–1622) — was a Flemish cartographer, astronomer and minister whose maps and globes helped give visible form to the rapidly expanding European knowledge of the southern sky.…
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Cassini’s Terrestrial Globe
Build a free paper model of Giovanni Maria Cassini’s 1790 terrestrial globe, based on engraved gores and eighteenth-century cartography. Download the illustrated PDF with instructions in Italian and English.