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Code 8276
EUR 1500.00
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1761925081Code 8276 Terrestrial GlobeEarth globe made at the end of the 19th century by Ernst Schotte of Berlin.
In addition to the territorial map, ocean currents are depicted. Base in turned and ebonized wood, papier-mâché sphere. Good condition, signs of use, very good readability. Measurements 29 x 65 cm – 9.4 x 25.5 inches
Schotte Ernst & co. was an important manufacturing company of globes and planetariums, founded in Berlin in 1855. Starting from 1870 Schotte E. & co. he made many globes in over 25 languages, but also many celestial, lunar and planetary globes, exported throughout Europe, with a very artistic design and a richly decorative appearance. The company continued production until the beginning of the 20th century.
Until the beginning of the twentieth century, the spheres for the globes were produced as they were originally: two hemispheres of papier-mâché pressed and modeled on or inside a hemispherical mould, dried and strengthened inside with a wooden board, then glued and covered with a thin layer of plaster. The spindles of the globe from the areas between two meridians were glued onto this support, generally twelve in paper previously printed by engraving on a copper plate and coloured, each of which covering 30 degrees of longitude. Man has always wanted to know the world in which he lives and has used all the means available to measure the space that surrounds him to increasingly broaden his knowledge. The conditions that allowed man to develop models of the world and space probably only came about after thought had reached such a level of development as to understand that natural processes could be represented through a model.
Already in ancient Greece, naturalists had come to understand the sphericity of the Earth and its suspended position in space. The first globe we know of is the one attributed by Strabo, historian and geographer, to the Greek Crates of Mallo (around 150 BC). 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; the globe then begins to conquer university environments and high and low schools. It will be with the nineteenth century of great trade, circulation and the introduction of compulsory schooling that the desire to know distant countries will increase, making the old method of constructing globes inadequate. Spindles printed from engraved plates are no longer enough and the only real resource becomes lithography through which it is possible to print and promptly update maps which, with the growth of geographical discoveries made in various countries, become increasingly different.
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Code 8276 Terrestrial Globe
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