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Code 8103
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1741449302Code 8103 Terrestrial GlobeTerrestrial globe published around 1930 by the French cartographer J. Forest edition for the Ministry of Public Education. In addition to the territorial map, the ocean currents and the main trade routes of the period are outlined. Papier maché sphere and turned wooden base. Good condition. Measurements Height cm 33 - 13 inch, sphere diameter cm 18 - 7.1 inch.
J. Forest produced a wide variety of globes in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, mostly for educational use. His diverse output included table globes, some on turned and ebonized wood bases, floor globes, and novelty globes, such as those with mechanized rotating bases, or globes that included lighters. In the 20th century, Forest produced illuminated globes with modern aluminum bases.
The first terrestrial globe of which we have any record is the one attributed by Strabo, historian and geographer, to the Greek Crates of Mallo (c.a. 150 BC). The first globes at the beginning of the 16th century were built under the impetus of the great geographical explorations and immediately began to be used for educational purposes in princely courts, monasteries and colleges; the globe later began to conquer university environments and secondary and lower schools. In the 18th century, the official geographer of Louis XV, King of France, Didier Robert de Vaugondy, thanks to the practice acquired in the construction of globes, expanded the article "Globe" of the Encyclopédie by illustrating in detail the distinction between a celestial globe (which represents the concave surface of the sky with its constellations) and a terrestrial globe (which instead represents the surface of the Earth with the seas, islands, rivers, cities, etc.) and the techniques for making them. It will be with the nineteenth century of great trade, circulation and the introduction of compulsory education that the desire to know distant countries will increase, making the old method of building globes inadequate. Spindles printed from engraved plates are no longer sufficient and the only real resource becomes lithography through which it is possible to print and promptly update maps that with the increase of geographical discoveries made in various countries become obsolete more and more quickly.
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Code 8103 Terrestrial Globe
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