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Code 709
EUR 1800.00
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1752933186Code 709 Terrestrial GlobeTerrestrial globe made by the Austro-Hungarian geographer and cartographer Jan Felkl in the second half of the 19th century. In addition to the territorial map, it also shows ocean currents. The base is made of turned and ebonized wood. The sphere is made of papier-mâché and gesso, and features spindles and caps from lithographic printing. In good condition, cleaned and restored. Dimensions: 30 x 60 cm (12 x 23.6 inches).
Jan Felkl (1817-1878) was born in Bohemia and by 1840 had produced illustrated prospectuses for globes in six different sizes. Over the next twenty years, it grew to become the largest globe manufacturer on the Austro-Hungarian market, producing terrestrial and celestial globes in 17 different languages, as well as lunar, planetary, and tellurian globes. Felkl exhibited his globes at the 1867 World Exhibition in Paris and in 1873 in Vienna. The first globes were produced by hand-engraving and hand-coloring the segments. Felkl founded his own Geographical and Lithographic Institute in Prague to produce globes and maps. In 1870, Felkl moved the factory from Prague to Roztok and took his youngest son as a partner in his company, renamed Felkl & Son, producing globes for export throughout Europe and even to the United States. The business grew to employ more than 40 people, opening an office in Vienna. Its main clients were schools, public institutions, and libraries. After Jan Felkl's death, the business was continued by the family until the early 1900s.
Until the early 20th century, globe spheres were produced as they were originally: two papier-mâché hemispheres pressed and shaped 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 this support were glued the globe's meridians, generally twelve, made of paper previously printed by engraving on a copper plate and colored, each covering 30 degrees of longitude. Humans have always wanted to understand the world in which they live and have used every means at their disposal to measure the space around them to continually expand their knowledge. The conditions that allowed humans to develop models of the world and space probably arose only after thought had reached a point where it was understood that natural processes could be represented through a model. As early as ancient Greece, naturalists had come to understand the sphericity of the Earth and its suspended position in space. The first globe of which we have news is the one attributed by Strabo, historian and geographer, to the Greek Crates of Mallo (c. 150 BC).
The first globes were built in the early 16th century, spurred by 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 universities, high schools, and junior high schools.
It was with the 19th century, marked by widespread trade, circulation, and the introduction of compulsory education, that the desire to explore distant lands increased, making the old method of globe construction inadequate.
Spindles printed from engraved plates were no longer sufficient, and the only real resource became lithography, which made it possible to print and promptly update maps that became increasingly diverse as geographical discoveries were made in various countries.
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