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Code 8400
EUR 1000.00
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1770831522Code 8400 Terrestrial GlobePolitical tabletop globe with a turned wooden basket base, produced in 1940 by Weber Costello Co., Chicago Heights, Illinois. Lithographed papier-mâché sphere, complete with a metal graduated meridian circle. The globe also features a large figure-eight analemma, positioned over the Pacific, which displays solar declination and the equation of time throughout the year: a characteristic feature of pre-war educational globes, when astronomy applied to navigation still played a key role in schools.
Good condition, small tear in the map over the Atlantic Ocean, very good readability.
Sphere diameter: 20 cm – 8 in, base: 28 x 16 – 11 x 6.3. cm
C. F. Weber & Co. purchased the globe business of A. H. Andrews & Co. in 1896. The company became Weber Costello Frick Co. in 1902 and Weber Costello in 1909. By the 1920s, the company boasted that it had some of the largest and best-equipped factories in the world, boasting 40 years of experience in globe manufacturing. During the interwar years, Weber Costello became a leading supplier of school globes in the United States, working with both cartographers and publishers throughout Europe. Fame came during World War II when the company produced a pair of 50-inch (127 cm) diameter globes, sending one to Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the other to Churchill in London so they could coordinate their strategic plans while looking at the same globe. Production of Weber Costello globes continued until about the 1960s, after which time the company ceased its globe business.
The first globes were produced in the early 16th century, spurred by the great geographical explorations, and immediately began to be used for educational purposes in princely courts, monasteries, and colleges. Globes later began to conquer universities, high schools, and even elementary schools. It was with the 19th century, marked by 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. Printed globes from engraved plates were no longer sufficient, and the only real resource became lithography, which made it possible to print and promptly update maps that, with the growth of geographical discoveries in various countries, became increasingly obsolete.
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