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Code 8197
EUR 320.00
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1752587136Code 8197 Small Terrestrial GlobeSmall terrestrial globe published by Räths Politischer Erdglobus, designed and outlined by Professor Arthur Krause in the 1950s. Papier-mâché sphere and turned wooden base.
Good condition, some signs of use.
Dimensions: 12 x 17 cm – 4.7 x 6.7 inches.
Professor Dr. Arthur Krause took over the Räth company, a globe manufacturer founded in 1917 by Paul Räth (1881–1929), after the founder's death. The company is still in operation today, having survived two world wars and the dissolution of the GDR. Some Räth globes are exhibited in major museums, such as the first electrically illuminated globe, from 1921, on display at the Globe Museum of the Vienna National Library.
The first recorded terrestrial globe is the one attributed by Strabo, historian and geographer, to the Greek Crates of Mallo (c. 150 BC). The first globes, constructed in the early 16th century under the impetus of great geographical explorations, immediately began to be used for educational purposes in princely courts, monasteries, and colleges. The globe later began to conquer universities and high schools. In the 18th century, Didier Robert de Vaugondy, the official geographer of Louis XV, King of France, using his experience in globe construction, expanded the article "Globe" in 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 represents the surface of the Earth with its seas, islands, rivers, cities, etc.) and the techniques used to make them: 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. The globe's meridians, usually twelve, were glued onto this layer of paper previously printed by engraving on a copper plate and colored, each covering 30 degrees of longitude. It was with the 19th century, a period of 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.
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Code 8197 Small Terrestrial Globe
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