Accession No
6619
Brief Description
16-inch false-colour globe of Venus, by Replogle and Sky Publishing, U.S.A., 1995
Origin
Chicago; Illinois; USA
Maker
Replogle Globes Inc. Sky Publishing Corporation
Class
astronomy; cartography
Earliest Date
1995
Latest Date
1995
Inscription Date
1995
Material
paper (laminate card; laminate paper); plastic (perspex?); paste (glue); wood (pine?); cloth (felt); metal (steel; brass)
Dimensions
Diameter: 405mm Height: 440mm Width of base: 405mm
Special Collection
Provenance
Purchased from Bonhams 580 Madison Ave., New York, NY, USA, on 05/12/2012. Auction 20830: Illuminating Space: Images from a Private Virginian Collection, Bonham’s New York. Lot no. 169 (with Wh. 6618).
Inscription
Description Notes
16-inch false-colour globe of Venus, by Replogle and Sky Publishing, U.S.A., 1995.
Plastic globe with printed laminate paper gores. Brass pins at poles. Longitude marked at every 30o; latitude at every 15o. Elevation of surface represented by colour. Major regions and features are named. Lack of precision in the gluing of gores: edges of gores do not quite match up. According to label on base, scale is approximately 1: 30,000,000 (1mm = 30 km; 1 inch = 470 miles) .
Comes with fitted wooden base with cross design. Felt on curved top of stand to cushion globe. Printed label glues to base with details of scale;explanation of imaging origin (Chiefly Magellan spacecraft, filled in with Soviet Venera 15 and 16 and Arecibo Observatory (Puerto Rico) images and data; some elevation data also from Pioneer Venus mission); brief details of Magellan mission; details of data processing (by Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA), M.I.T. and U.S. Geological Survey); and manufacturers (Sky Publishing and Replogle. Further sticker with coloured scale of elevation above and below mean radius (kilometres).
Condition: good
References
Events
Description
Between the Pioneer Venus Orbiter mission in 1978 (which informed Venus globe Wh.6618) and 1995, the year of this object’s manufacture, there were several missions to Venus that helped refine image mapping of the surface. The 1989-1994 Magellan mission largely generated the images for this globe, although data from the Soviet Venera 15 and 16 orbiters, and the Arecibo observatory (Puerto Rico) filled in some gaps. The map of Venus resulting from the Magellan radar system is the most detailed yet compiled and contrasts sharply with the earlier low resolution versions of globes like Wh.6618.
Replogle Globes was founded in the 1930s by Luther Replogle, a school supply salesman who believed that there was a wider market for globes than in school classrooms. For his first globes, Replogle used gores from English manufacturers, and after a decade of business, Replogle Globes had become an established and prolific manufacturer of school globes. The company continues to produce a variety of globes to this day.
19/10/2016
Created by: Steven Kruse; Allison Ksiazkiewicz on 19/10/2016
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