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Code 703
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1729868154Code 703 Antiques Pair GlobesVery rare pair of terrestrial and celestial globes made by Felix Delamarche in 1834. On the cartouche of the terrestrial globe we read Globe Terrestre Dressé par Felix Delamarche 1834. Spheres in plaster and paper papier-mâché, basket bases in turned and ebonized wood complete with the meridian circle and of the equator and circle of the hours in paper mache. Good condition, excellent readability, conservative restorations.
Height 40 cm – 15.8 inches, base diameter 27 cm – 10.6 inches, sphere diameter 18 cm – 6.9 inches.
The Earth globe is written in French and has cream-colored oceans and continents. Coastlines are outlined with hatching and highlighted in brown. Mountain ranges are depicted pictorially. The equator and ecliptic are highlighted in red. The oceans are marked with dotted lines called "Division Océanique".
Alaska is called Amerique Russe - Russian America, while Australia is called Nouvelle Hollande - New Holland and Tasmania is depicted as an island and indicated I. de Diemen - Diemen's Island.
Antarctica is not mapped but only indicated as Ocean Glacial Antarctique which reflects the geographical knowledge of the time.
The celestial globe is made up of 12 spindles of paper printed by engraving on a copper plate which depict the constellations of the globe and symbolize animal figures, mythological characters and scientific instruments on a cream-coloured background.
The founder of this important manufacturer of astronomical instruments was the geographer Charles - François Delamarche (1740 - 1817). The company initially had its headquarters in rue de Foin St Jacques, in the Latin Quarter of Paris, where it remained until 1805, moving to 13 rue de Jardinet. Upon the death of Charles - François in 1817 the reins of the company were taken over by his son Felix who continued a prolific production, also thanks to the cooperation with the engraver Charles Dien. Around 1835 the company was moved to number 7 rue du Battoir, and then to 25 rue Serpente. In addition to the terrestrial and celestial spheres, the Delamarche also distinguished themselves for the production of other astronomical instruments, such as the armillary spheres, named after the circles (Latin "armille") which represented the various planets of the solar system.
The meridian of Paris was defined on 21 June 1667 by the mathematicians of the Académie, but the measurement of the meridian was only completed in 1718 by Giovanni Domenico Cassini and his son Jacques Cassini. In 1740, César-François Cassini rectified the trace and then the meridian was measured again from 1792 to 1798 by Jean-Baptiste Joseph Delambre and Pierre Méchain, as a basis for establishing the exact length of the meter in 1799. The Paris meridian was abandoned in favor of the Greenwich meridian during the Washington International Conference of 1884. Some of the reasons were that there were almost no inhabited lands at the antipodes of Greenwich, the British promise to adopt the metric system in exchange for the French renunciation of the Paris meridian, and the fact that at the time most nautical cartography was of English origin and that therefore adopting a meridian other than Greenwich would have forced the replacement of a greater number of nautical charts. In France the Greenwich meridian was officially adopted only in 1911.
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