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Code 8426
EUR 850.00
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1781004038Code 8426 Terrestrial GlobeTabletop globe produced by Rand McNally around the 1950s. It features a lithographic political map in pastel colors typical of the period, with black oceans and seas, mounted on a metal base.
Good condition, excellent readability.
Dimensions: 30 x 40 cm – 12 x 15.8 in.
In addition to the highly detailed and complete territorial map of some maritime and air trade routes, it features twelve time zones and the analemma, the figure-eight curve printed on the ocean that shows the declination of the Sun throughout the year. The analemma makes the globe not only geographical but also educational and astronomical, and was a distinctive feature of Rand McNally school globes of the period.
Rand McNally & Company is a historic American cartographic company founded in 1856 in Chicago by William H. Rand and subsequently directed by Andrew McNally.
In 1872, it introduced the revolutionary wax printing technology that allowed for sharper and more easily updated maps.
In the 1920s, it published one of the first road atlases for automobiles, anticipating the era of road tourism in the United States.
The first globes, built in the early 16th century under the pressure 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 King Louis XV of France, thanks to his experience in globe construction, 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 its seas, islands, rivers, cities, etc.) and the techniques for making them: two papier-mâché hemispheres pressed and modeled 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 on which the globe’s meridians of areas between two meridians, generally twelve, were glued, made of paper previously printed by engraving on a copper plate and colored, each of which covered 30 degrees of longitude.
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