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Code 8038
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1730996849Code 8038 Terrestrial GlobeTerrestrial globe published by the German cartographic institute Dietrich Reimers Berlin 1954. In addition to the very well-defined territorial map, the ocean currents and the main trade routes of the period are shown. Rectangular wooden base complete with meridian circle. Good condition, excellent readability. Height 34 cm – 13.3 inch, sphere diameter 23 cm – 9 inch.
The Verlag company Dietrich Reimer (1818-1899) was an important globe manufacturing company between the 19th and 20th centuries, founded in Berlin in 1845. In 1852 the company bought C. Adami & Co., another globe manufacturing company globes, and so Adami (1802-1874) became a cartographer for Reimer, updating the company's globes. The same year Heirich Kiepert (1818-1899) was hired and this cartographer brought further innovations to the design of the Reimer globes. Reimer retired in 1891, and the company continued under the direction of E. Vohsen, producing globes until the 1960s.
The first globes at the beginning of the 16th century. they were built under the pressure of great geographical explorations and immediately began to be used for educational purposes at princely courts, monasteries and colleges. In the 18th century, the official geographer of Louis which represents the concave surface of the sky with its constellations) and a terrestrial globe (which instead 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 mould, left to dry and strengthened inside with a wooden board, then glued and covered with a thin layer of plaster on which the spindles of the globe were glued of areas between two meridians, usually twelve, each covering 30 degrees of longitude, made of paper that had previously been printed by engraving on a copper plate and then coloured.
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Code 8038 Terrestrial Globe
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