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Code 8099
EUR 1000.00
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1748699215Code 8099 Terrestrial GlobeTerrestrial globe published at the end of the 19th century by the French geographer J. Forest; in addition to the territorial map, the ocean currents and the main trade routes of the period are depicted. Papier-mâché and plaster sphere covered with sections of copperplate engraving paper and watercolour, base in turned and ebonised wood. Height cm 35 – inches 13.8, diameter of the sphere cm 19 – inches 7.5. Good condition, signs of use and signs of restored woodworm on the base.
J. Forest produced a wide variety of globes in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, mostly for educational use. His diverse output included table globes, some on turned and ebonized wooden bases, floor globes, and innovative globes, such as those with mechanized rotating bases, or globes that included cigarette lighters. In the 20th century, Forest produced illuminated globes with modern aluminum bases. The Paris meridian was defined on June 21, 1667 by mathematicians of the Académie, but the measurement of the meridian was not completed until 1718 by Giovanni Domenico Cassini and his son Jacques Cassini. In 1740, César-François Cassini corrected the line, and the meridian was remeasured from 1792 to 1798 by Jean-Baptiste Joseph Delambre and Pierre Méchain, as a basis for establishing the exact length of the metre in 1799. The Paris meridian was abandoned in favour of the Greenwich meridian at the Washington International Conference of 1884. Some of the reasons were that there was almost no inhabited land at the antipodes of Greenwich, the British promise to adopt the metric system in exchange for France giving up the Paris meridian, and the fact that most nautical cartography at the time was of English origin and that adopting a meridian other than Greenwich would therefore require replacing a greater number of nautical charts. In France, the Greenwich meridian was not officially adopted until 1911.
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Code 8099 Terrestrial Globe
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