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Code 8561
EUR 600.00
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1783961773Code 8561 Terrestrial GlobeTerrestrial globe created in the late 1930s by French geographer J. Forest. The cartouche reads: "Dressed by J. FOREST Géographe – Girard, Barrèere & Thomas Editeurs 17–19 Rue de Buci, Paris." In addition to the very detailed territorial map, the globe depicts ocean currents and the main trade routes of the period. Good condition, stains, good legibility. Deco aluminum base and papier-mâché sphere covered with lithographic printing paper.
Dimensions: 23 x 38 cm – 9 x 15 in.
Girard et Barrère was a cartographic publishing house founded in 1934; it took over the production of Henry Barrère (1890–1930) and P.H. Barrère (1931–1933). It operated between 1946 and 1959 under the name Girard, Barrère et Thomas.
J. Forest produced a wide variety of globes in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, primarily for use in schools, but also for home use. His prolific production included table globes, some on turned and ebonized wood bases, floor globes, and innovative globes, such as terrestrial globes on mechanized rotating bases, or globes that included lighters. In the 20th century, Forest produced illuminated globes that included modern aluminum bases. Forest globes were mostly in French, with a few for export in English and Spanish. In the early 20th century, Forest was apparently succeeded by the geographical publishing firm Girard & Barrère, which continued to offer Forest globes at the same Paris address, Rue de Buci, that Forest used. During the early and mid-20th century, the firm also produced globes and geographical publications as Girard, Barrère et Thomas. There may have been a merger with the 19th-century globe manufacturer G. Thomas.
The Paris meridian was defined on June 21, 1667 by mathematicians of the Académie, but the measurement of the meridian was completed only in 1718 by Giovanni Domenico Cassini and his son Jacques Cassini. In 1740, César-François Cassini corrected the line, and the meridian was then remeasured from 1792 to 1798 by Jean-Baptiste Joseph Delambre and Pierre Méchain, as a basis for establishing the exact length of the meter in 1799. The Paris meridian was abandoned in favor of the Greenwich meridian at the Washington International Conference of 1884. Some of the reasons were that there was almost no inhabited land at the antipodes of Greenwich, the British promise to adopt the metric system in exchange for France's renunciation of the Paris meridian, and the fact that at the time, most nautical cartography was of English origin, and therefore adopting a meridian other than Greenwich would have required the replacement of a greater number of nautical charts. In France, the Greenwich meridian was not officially adopted until 1911.
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