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Code 8626
EUR 1000.00
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1791638500Code 8626 Terrestrial GlobeTerrestrial globe published by Räth (Räths Politischer Erdglobus), designed and drafted by Prof. Arthur Krause in the 1930s.
Complete papier-mâché sphere; turned wooden base featuring an integrated compass.
Good condition; excellent legibility.
Dimensions: 11 x 28 cm (4.3 x 11 in).
After the death of its founder, Professor Dr. Arthur Krause took over the Räth company, a globe manufacturer established in 1917 by Paul Räth (1881–1929).
The company remains in operation today, having survived two world wars and the dissolution of the GDR.
Some Räth globes are on display in major museums—such as the first electrically illuminated globe, dating from 1921, which is exhibited at the Globe Museum of the Austrian National Library in Vienna.
The first globes of the early 16th century were created in the wake of the great geographical explorations; they were immediately put to educational use in princely courts, monasteries, and colleges, eventually finding their way into universities and schools at all levels.
In the 18th century, Didier Robert de Vaugondy—official geographer to King Louis XV of France—drew upon his practical experience in globe-making to expand the *Encyclopédie* entry on "Globes." He provided a detailed distinction between celestial globes (representing the concave surface of the heavens and their constellations) and terrestrial globes (representing the Earth’s surface, including seas, islands, rivers, cities, etc.), as well as describing the techniques used to create them. These involved pressing and molding papier-mâché hemispheres over or inside a hemispherical mold; once dried and internally reinforced with a wooden axis, the halves were glued together and coated with a thin layer of plaster. Onto this base, paper "gores"—strips covering the area between two meridians (typically twelve in total)—were applied; these were printed from copperplate engravings and hand-colored, with each gore covering 30 degrees of longitude.
It was during the 19th century—an era defined by expanding trade, increased mobility, and the introduction of compulsory schooling—that the growing desire to learn about distant lands rendered the traditional globe-making method inadequate.
Gores printed from engraved plates were no longer sufficient; lithography emerged as the vital new resource, enabling the timely printing and updating of maps that otherwise became obsolete ever more rapidly as geographical discoveries continued across the globe.
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