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Code 8104
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1741448711Code 8104 Terrestrial GlobeTable globe, made according to the knowledge of Giovanni Maria Cassini (Venice 1745 – Rome 1824) regular cleric of the Somaschi Fathers, an order proposed in Venice in 1525 and founded in Somasca, Lombardy in 1532, and updated according to the latest discoveries in 1843 by the Calcografia Camerale, the papal publishing house. Composed of twelve spindles and two polar caps engraved in copper on paper and applied to a plaster and papier-mâché support, hand-colored and placed on an octagonal wooden pedestal. Good condition, signs of use. Measurements cm 50x50 – inches 19.7x19.7.
Giovanni Maria Cassini was one of the best disciples of the famous architect Giovanni Battista Piranesi, and began his career as a cartographer in 1787. He created the engraved copper plates of his masterpiece, the “New Universal Geographical Atlas”, between 1788 and 1791 and, contrary to all cartographers and geographers, who jealously guarded their plates to prevent them from being copied, Cassini, starting in 1792, began to sell inside his Atlas the spindles for the terrestrial and celestial globes, which the buyer could then personalize by mounting them on bases of his choice.
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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