Accession No
6504
Brief Description
celestial folding paper / card globe, by Friedrich G. Schulz, German, 1830 (c)
Origin
Germany; Stuttgart
Maker
Schulz, Friedrich G.
Class
astronomy
Earliest Date
1830
Latest Date
1830
Inscription Date
Material
paper (paper, card); thread (cotton); cloth
Dimensions
case: height 185mm; width 105mm; opened globe: diameter 140mm
Special Collection
Provenance
Purchased from Dorotheum Auction House, Palais Dorotheum, A-1010 Wien, Dorotheergasse 17, Austria on or before 17/01/2012.
Inscription
Darstellung
des
gestirnten Himmels
durch Zusammensetzung in eine Kugel
ähnliche Gestalt, zum bequemen Gebrauche,
du Gestirne kennen zu lernen
im Verlag bei Fried. G. Schulz
in Stuttgart
Description Notes
Stuttgart celestial folding paper globe, in card folding case, by Friedrich G. Schulz, German, c. 1830.
Six lithographed paper gores (two layers: paper with thin card backing). A small piece of cloth (attached between the two layers) connects each gore to the next. The gores are also joined by strings at the top and bottom. A small piece of cloth is wrapped around the strings at each each end. A concertina fold allows the globe to lie flat inside a folded paper case (paper with thin card backing). The globe can be opened out and the cloth pushed inwards along the strings to hold the globe in an open position.
Stars and constellations are marked in German. The card case has a label on the outside and more information is printed on the inside.
References
Events
Description
This kind of collapsible globe was a common design found in nineteenth-century schoolrooms, as it allowed a globe that was large enough to use for teaching, but was also portable when collapsed. During this period, globes were used increasingly as teaching aids for geography and astronomy lessons. On this example, six lithographed paper gores are joined by thin card and cloth, with the stars and constellations marked in German. The Anglo-Irish educationalists Richard Edgeworth (1744–1817) and his daughter Maria Edgeworth (1768–1849) made reference to an inflatable globe in their Practical Education (1798), writing: “To assist our pupils in geography we prefer a globe to common maps. Might not a cheap, portable, and convenient globe be made of oiled silk, to be inflated by a common par of bellows?”
14/01/2014
Created by: Allison Ksiazkiewicz on 14/01/2014
FM:47014
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