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Tabletop globe according to the knowledge of Giovanni M. Cassini Rome 1843

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Tabletop terrestrial globe, made according to the knowledge of Giovanni Maria Cassini (Venice 1745 - Rome 1824) regular cleric of the Somaschi Fathers, an order proposed in Venice in 1525 and founded in Somasca, Lombardy in 1532, and updated according to the latest findings in 1843 by Calcografia Camerale, the papal publishing house. Composed of twelve spindles and two polar caps engraved in copper on paper and applied on a plaster and papier-mâché support, hand-colored and placed on an octagonal wooden pedestal. Good condition signs of use. Measurements 50x50 cm - inches 19.7x19.7. Giovanni Maria Cassini was one of the best disciples of the famous architect Giovanni Battista Piranesi, and began his career as a cartographer in 1787. He made the engraved copper plates of his masterpiece, the "Nuovo Atlante Geografico Universale," between 1788 and 1791, and unlike all cartographers and geographers, who jealously preserved their plates to prevent them from being copied, Cassini, beginning in 1792, began selling spindles for the terrestrial and celestial globe within his Atlas, which the purchaser could then customize by mounting them on bases of his liking. The earliest known globe is the one attributed by Strabo, a historian and geographer, to the Greek Cratetes of Mallo (c.a. 150 B.C.). The first globes in the early 16th century were built under the impetus of the great geographical explorations and immediately began to be used for educational purposes at princely courts, monasteries, and colleges; the globe later began to conquer university circles and high and lower schools. In the 18th century, the official geographer of King Louis XV of France, Didier Robert de Vaugondy, thanks to the practice he had gained in globe making, expanded the "Globe" article in the Encyclopédie by detailing the distinction between a celestial globe (representing the concave surface of the sky with its constellations) and a terrestrial globe (representing instead the surface of the Earth with its seas, islands, rivers, cities, etc.) and the techniques for making them. It will be with the nineteenth century of great commerce, circulation and the introduction of compulsory schooling that the desire to learn about distant countries will increase, making the old method of globe construction inadequate. Spindles printed from engraved plates no longer suffice, and the only real resource becomes lithography through which it is possible to print and update maps in a timely manner, which as more and more geographical discoveries are made in different countries become obsolete faster and faster.

Dimensions:
Height: 19.7 in (50.04 cm)Diameter: 19.7 in (50.04 cm)
Materials and Techniques:
Wood
Period:
1840-1849
Date of Manufacture:
1843
Condition:
Wear consistent with age and use.
Seller Location:
Milan, IT
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU1020243954802

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