Accession No
6383
Brief Description
terrestrial globe, ‘Tectonic Globe of the Earth’, showing Russian theory of global geological tectonics without “plates”, by Kurt Ziesing, German, 1972
Origin
Germany; Leipzig
Maker
Kurt Ziesing Thiele, W. [redactor (compiler)] Haack, H. [editor (publisher)]
Class
cartography; earth sciences; demonstration
Earliest Date
1972
Latest Date
1972
Inscription Date
Material
wood, metal (aluminium), paper
Dimensions
330mm (diameter); 480mm (total height)
Special Collection
Provenance
Purchased from Staetshuys Antiquairs BV; Meulendijks & Schuil: Nieuwe Spiegelstraat 45a, 10017, DC Amsterdam, Netherlands, 21/07/2010.
Inscription
TECTONIC GLOBE OF THE EARTH
by Kurt Ziesing
Scale 1 : 38 600 000
Redacted by W. Thiele
Edited by VEB Hermann Haack
Geographisc-Kartographische Anstalt Gotha/Leipzig
VLN 1001 K2/64 E 102/72
Description Notes
‘Tectonic Globe of the Earth’, showing Russian theory of global geological tectonics without “plates”, by Kurt Ziesing, German, 1972.
Turned, varnished wooden stand; aluminium half meridian ring supporting the globe, fixed at 66.5º (numbered to 10º, subdivided to 5º); the globe itself is on an aluminium rod, buffered by two wooden pieces; carries gross geological and tectonic information in a variety of colours; markings in blue for the meridians, lines of longitude, Equator, Arctic and Antarctic Circles and Tropics.
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Description
Designed by Kurt Ziesing as part of his doctoral these at the Dresden Technical University, this globe was produced for the 2nd Symposium of the Coronelli World League of Friends of the Globe held in Dresden in 1965. This globe represents an experiment in cartography. Ziesing and his mentor Wolfgang Pillewizer (1911–1999) were interested in thematic mapping and the benefits of 3D representation. Using tectonics as a case study, Ziesing and Pillewizer show different stages of geosynclines, which were trough-like depressions in which sediment accumulated and provoked the crust to subside. Rather than today’s idea, which claims that tectonic plates move according to horizontal displacements, Ziesing and his collegues imagined the displacement to occur by vertical movement. Data for the globe was complied from Russian atlases, and so the tectonic theory that Ziesing and Pillewizer represent is Russian. Continental drift was not accepted in Russian geology until the 1980s. This globe is a copy of the original.
14/01/2014
Created by: Allison Ksiazkiewicz on 14/01/2014
FM:46892
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