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DOPPELMAYR, Johann Gabriel. Globus Terrestris Novus..concinne traditus a Ioh. Georg Puschnero; Globus Coelestis Novus...exacte concinatus a Ioh. Geor. Puschnero. Nuremberg: 1730.
A pair of table globes, diameter 8 inches (20cm.), overall height 12 inches (31cm.). Each globe made up of 12 engraved gores, hand-coloured in outline, lightly varnished. The celestial gores laid to the ecliptic poles, decorated with elaborate constellation figures, the decorative title cartouche set in the southern hemisphere below Cetus. The terrestrial with title and meridian explanation cartouches, both set in the Pacific, showing the track of Dampier around the world (the terrestrial with repaired crack near equator in the Pacific, the varnish of both lightly discoloured). Metal pinions, brass meridian circles, graduated on one face (lacking hour circles and pointers.) The pair mounted on Dutch style ebonised and oak stands, the horizon carried by four stained turned and fluted legs, cross stretchers supporting turned wooden base with wooden centrepost, flat balled feet (the horizon bars of the pair without engraved horizon circles).
A rare pair of Doppelmayr globes, in good condition. Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr (1671-1750) was trained as a scientist and mathematician, and became involved in globe making after working with Johann Baptist Homann in Nuremberg in the early 18th Century. From 1704 to his death he taught science and mathematics in Nuremberg, and published his first globes (32cm's) in 1728, this pair in 1730 and finally a 10cm pair in 1736. The gores were engraved by Johann Georg Puschner, a Nuremberg instrument maker. The absence of engraved horizon gores is unusual, but this pair show no trace of fragments, and may well have been issued without them. Van der Krogt Dop 4; Dop 7. (2)
A pair of table globes, diameter 8 inches (20cm.), overall height 12 inches (31cm.). Each globe made up of 12 engraved gores, hand-coloured in outline, lightly varnished. The celestial gores laid to the ecliptic poles, decorated with elaborate constellation figures, the decorative title cartouche set in the southern hemisphere below Cetus. The terrestrial with title and meridian explanation cartouches, both set in the Pacific, showing the track of Dampier around the world (the terrestrial with repaired crack near equator in the Pacific, the varnish of both lightly discoloured). Metal pinions, brass meridian circles, graduated on one face (lacking hour circles and pointers.) The pair mounted on Dutch style ebonised and oak stands, the horizon carried by four stained turned and fluted legs, cross stretchers supporting turned wooden base with wooden centrepost, flat balled feet (the horizon bars of the pair without engraved horizon circles).
A rare pair of Doppelmayr globes, in good condition. Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr (1671-1750) was trained as a scientist and mathematician, and became involved in globe making after working with Johann Baptist Homann in Nuremberg in the early 18th Century. From 1704 to his death he taught science and mathematics in Nuremberg, and published his first globes (32cm's) in 1728, this pair in 1730 and finally a 10cm pair in 1736. The gores were engraved by Johann Georg Puschner, a Nuremberg instrument maker. The absence of engraved horizon gores is unusual, but this pair show no trace of fragments, and may well have been issued without them. Van der Krogt Dop 4; Dop 7. (2)