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Code 7785
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1702141421Code 7785 Terrestrial GlobeTerrestrial globe drawn up at the end of the 1940s by the French geographer J. Forest, on the scroll reads Dressé par J. FOREST Géographe – Girard, Barrèere & Thomas Editeurs 17 – 19 Rue de Buci. Paris. In addition to the very well-defined territorial map, it also depicts the ocean currents and the main trade routes of the period. Good condition, good readability. Turned wooden base and aluminum sphere covered with printed paper. Height 39 cm – 15.4 inches, sphere diameter 23 cm – 9 inches.
J. Forest made a wide variety of globes in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, mostly for use in schools, but also for home use. His prolific output included tabletop globes, some on turned and ebonized wood bases, floor globes, and innovative globes, such as terrestrial globes on mechanized rotating bases, or globes that included lighters. In the 20th century Forest produced lighted globes that included modern aluminum bases. The Forest globes were mostly in French, plus some for export in English and Spanish. In the early 20th century, Forest was evidently succeeded by the geographic publishing firm Girard & Barrère which continued to offer Forest globes at the same Paris address, Rue de Buci, that Forest used. During the early and mid-20th century the company also produced globes and geographical publications such as Girard, Barrère and Thomas. There may have been a merger of companies with the 19th century globe maker G. Thomas.
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 the antipodes of Greenwich there were almost no inhabited lands, 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 the majority of nautical cartography was of English origin and 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.
Man has always wanted to know the world in which he lives and has used all the means available to measure the space that surrounds him to increasingly broaden his knowledge. The conditions that allowed man to develop models of the world and space probably only came about after thought had reached such a level of development as to understand that natural processes could be represented through a model. Already in ancient Greece, naturalists had come to understand the sphericity of the Earth and its suspended position in space. The first globe we know of is the one attributed by Strabo, historian and geographer, to the Greek Crates of Mallo (around 150 BC). The first globes at the beginning of the 16th century. they were built under the pressure of great geographical explorations and immediately began to be used for educational purposes at princely courts, monasteries and colleges; the globe then begins to conquer university environments and high and low schools. It will be with the nineteenth century of great trade, circulation and the introduction of compulsory schooling that the desire to know distant countries will increase, making the old method of constructing globes inadequate. Spindles printed from engraved plates are no longer enough and the only real resource becomes lithography through which it is possible to promptly print and update maps which, with the growth of geographical discoveries made in various countries, become obsolete more and more quickly.
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