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Code 6657
EUR 1300.00
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1602856172Code 6657 Vintage globeTerrestrial globe published in the forties by Girard Barrère et Thomas 17, Rue de Buci Paris. Turned wooden base, paper mache sphere covered with paper printed by engraving on copper plate and watercolored. In addition to the territorial map, the ocean currents and the main trade routes of the period are depicted. Excellent condition. Height 48 cm, sphere diameter 23 cm - inches 9x18.8.
Girard et Barrère was a cartographic publisher established in 1934; it has resumed the production of Henry Barrère (1890-1930) and PH Barrère (1931-1933). It made globes between 1946 and 1959 using the name Girard, Barrère et 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.
Men have always wanted to understand the world where they live, and they used all possible instruments to measure the space around and to increase their knowledge. Men had the possibilities to create some models of universe just when they had understood that it was possible to represent all natural processes by models. In old Greece, Naturalists understood sphericity of the Earth and its suspended position in space. The oldest globe is attributed by Strabo, historian and geographer, to Cratete from Mallo (about 150 B.C.). The first globes, in early XVI century, were made following up big geographical explorations and they were used for didactic uses in courts, monasteries and colleges; then globes were used also in universities and schools.
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