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Code 8113
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1742646498Code 8113 Terrestrial GlobeTerrestrial globe published in 1868 by Verlag Dietrich Reimer by the cartographer Carl Adami. Ebonized wooden basket tripod base with compass at the base, papier-mâché and plaster sphere covered with copper plate engraving paper. In addition to the very well-defined territorial map, the main trade routes of the period are shown, terrestrial sphere complete with the engraved brass meridian circle. Height cm 74 – 29.1 inch, base diameter cm 46 – 18 inch, sphere diameter cm 30 – 11.8 inch. Good condition and good readability
Carl Adami (1802-1874) founded the company Adami and Co. in Berlin, together with a military friend, and began selling globes in 1838. He was famous for his 34 cm terrestrial globes of 1838. In 1852 Dietrich Reimer took over the company, but Adami continued to work as a cartographer.
The company Verlag Dietrich Reimer (1818-1899) was a major globe manufacturer in the 19th and 20th centuries, founded in Berlin in 1845. In 1852 the company bought C. Adami & Co., another globe manufacturer, 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 Reimer globes. Reimer retired in 1891 and the company continued under the direction of E. Vohsen, producing globes until the 1960s.
The first terrestrial globe of which we have any record is the one attributed by Strabo, historian and geographer, to the Greek Crates of Mallo (c.a. 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 secondary and lower schools. In the 18th century, the official geographer of Louis XV, King of France, Didier Robert de Vaugondy, thanks to the practice acquired in the construction of globes, expanded the article "Globe" of the Encyclopédie by illustrating in detail the distinction between a celestial globe (which represents the concave surface of the sky with its constellations) and a terrestrial globe (which instead represents the surface of the Earth with the seas, islands, rivers, cities, etc.) and the techniques for making them. 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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