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Code 8341
EUR 350.00
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1764080789Code 8341 Small Terrestrial GlobeSmall German globe made by the cartographer Columbus Schulerglobus, Prof. Paul Oestergaard, Berlin–Stuttgart, in the 1950s.
In addition to the territorial map, it depicts ocean currents and the main trade routes of the period.
Aluminum base, complete with engraved meridian circle. Good condition, with slight paper abrasion over Australia.
Height: 21 cm (8.2 inches); sphere diameter: 13 cm (5.1 inches).
Founded in 1909 in Berlin by Paul Oestergaard, grandson of Peter J. Oestergaard—a globe maker since the late 19th century—Columbus is the oldest globe manufacturer still in operation in the world. For over a century, it has innovated the manufacturing industry, and the experience accumulated over four generations has allowed the company to achieve the status of world leader in globe production.
The first globes date back to the early 16th century. Born from the impetus of great geographical explorations, they were immediately used for educational purposes in princely courts, monasteries, and colleges. In the 18th century, thanks to the work of Louis XIV's official geographer, both the celestial globe—representing the concave surface of the sky with its constellations—and the terrestrial globe, which instead shows the Earth's surface with seas, islands, rivers, and cities, became widespread. Production techniques involved the creation of two papier-mâché hemispheres, pressed and modeled on or inside a hemispherical mold, left to dry, and internally reinforced with a wooden board. The hemispheres were then glued together and covered with a thin layer of plaster, on which the globe's time zones were applied: areas between two meridians, usually twelve, each covering 30 degrees of longitude. The time zones were made of paper printed by engraving on a copper plate, then colored.
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