Bibliographic record
Abstract
E ARLY GLOBES combine science and art.A passion for them came naturally to my husband, who was fascinated with the world around him, cared deeply for his country and its history.He marvelled at how successive discoveries only sharpened the thirst for knowledge.In 1968 we acquired the first globes for the Stewart Museum: a pair of terrestrial and celestial globes by Matthaus Greuter, the first important globe maker in Italy.The terrestrial globe, dated 1632, clearly shows New France and the town of Quebec, using the maps that the great explorer Samuel de Champlain had published in 1613.The oldest globe in the collection is also one of the most spectacular, in itself a work of art.Made in the French royal town of Blois in 1533, this celestial globe was completed just two years before Jacques Cartier ascended the St. Lawrence River to the site of present-day Montreal.I well remember our sense of awe as we saw the Blois globe for the first time.After all these years, it has not lost any of its lustre.The globe collection has continued to grow.For their scientific importance, aesthetic quality, rarity and diversity, globes from several countries and different periods have been acquired.The materials used in these works are various, from exotic woods to hand-blown glass.And globes in all sizes have been added, from a gentleman's pocket-sized globe to Vincenzo Coronelli's terrestrial globe of 1688 -my personal favourite -which has a diameter of 108 centimeters, or three and a half feet.Armillary spheres and planetaria are included in the collection because of the way they help explain the functioning of the universe.Globes do not travel easily, but books do.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.009 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.747 | 0.734 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".