Accession No

6489

Brief Description

35cm Georg Jensch climate terrestrial globe, by Kiepert KG Berlin, German, c. 1970

Origin

Germany; Berlin

Maker

Kiepert KG

Class

cartography; meteorology

Earliest Date

1970

Latest Date

1970

Inscription Date

Material

paper (paper, papier maché); metal (aluminium); wood

Dimensions

diameter 350mm; height 530mm

Special Collection

Provenance

Purchased from Dorotheum Auction House, Palais Dorotheum, A-1010 Wien, Dorotheergasse 17, Austria, on or before 20/12/2010.

Inscription

KLIMA-GLOBUS
von Georg Jensch
Verlag Kiepert KG Berlin 12

Description Notes

35cm Georg Jensch climate terrestrial globe, by Kiepert KG Berlin, German, c. 1970.

Coloured paper gores on papier maché sphere, aluminium half-meridian ring, wood stand.

Complete.

References

Events

Description
This climatic globe was completed in connection with the 2nd International Symposium of the Cornelli World League of Friends of the Globe held in Dresden in 1965. The primary aim of this particular symposium session was to discuss how to best represent thematic material on a globe. Globes have a strong advantage over maps regarding the visualization of spatial relationships between two points on the Earth. Maps require projections that distort the shape of the Earth. This climatic globe represents the Earth climate according to Glenn Thomas Trewarth’s theory, the mean wind direction according to the report ‘Investigation of the general circulation of the atmosphere’ (1951) by Y. Mintz and G. Dean and the mean direction of ocean currents according to the British meteorologist John Stanley Sawyer (1916–2000).

14/01/2014
Created by: Allison Ksiazkiewicz on 14/01/2014

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