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1746527853Code 8147 Terrestrial GlobeBlack terrestrial globe from the Encyclopedia Britannica from the 1960s. Chromed metal base complete with the full circle of the meridian, papier-mâché sphere. Good condition, some small signs of use, excellent readability. Measurements cm 30x41 – inches 11.8x16.1.
The first terrestrial globe of which we have any knowledge is the one attributed by Strabo, historian and geographer, to the Greek Crates of Mallo (c. 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 high and lower schools. In the 18th century, the official geographer of King Louis XV of France, Didier Robert de Vaugondy, using his experience in globe construction, expanded the article “Globe” in the Encyclopédie by detailing the distinction between a celestial globe (which represents the concave surface of the sky with its constellations) and a terrestrial globe (which represents the surface of the Earth with its seas, islands, rivers, cities, etc.) and the techniques for making them: two papier-mâché hemispheres pressed and modeled on or inside a hemispherical mold, dried and strengthened on the inside with a wooden board, then glued and covered with a thin layer of plaster on which were glued the globe’s meridians, usually twelve, made of paper previously printed by engraving on a copper plate and colored, each covering 30 degrees of longitude.
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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