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Lot Essay
Born in Messtetten, Würtemburg, Johann Ludwig Andreae (1667-1725)
followed his priest father into Holy Orders in Tübingen and in 1711
moved to Esslingen where he began to make globes. His work was part of the early eighteenth-century explosion of globe-making in Germany,
centred particularly around Nuremburg, and including such makers as
Eimmert, Doppelmayr and Homann. He is known to have produced globes of 5½, 10, 12 and 19in. diameter, having the construction carried out
in the commercial centre of Nuremburg; he also appears to have been
assisted in some way by the Rector of the Egidian Gymnasium there,
Samuel Farber (1657-1716), whose name appears on the 19in. globe. On
some of his output, presumably as a commercial incentive, Andreae left a blank cartouche to be filled in according to the purchaser's wishes. In 1718 he published from Nuremberg his popular Mathematische und
Historische Beschreibung des Welt-Gebäudes Zum nutzlichen Gebrauch
Zweyer auf eine neue Art vefertigten Himels- und Erdkugeln, in which comparable stands are illustrated. He was succeeded by his mathematician son Johann Philipp (c.1700-after 1757), who also worked from Schwabach from 1734 onwards.
followed his priest father into Holy Orders in Tübingen and in 1711
moved to Esslingen where he began to make globes. His work was part of the early eighteenth-century explosion of globe-making in Germany,
centred particularly around Nuremburg, and including such makers as
Eimmert, Doppelmayr and Homann. He is known to have produced globes of 5½, 10, 12 and 19in. diameter, having the construction carried out
in the commercial centre of Nuremburg; he also appears to have been
assisted in some way by the Rector of the Egidian Gymnasium there,
Samuel Farber (1657-1716), whose name appears on the 19in. globe. On
some of his output, presumably as a commercial incentive, Andreae left a blank cartouche to be filled in according to the purchaser's wishes. In 1718 he published from Nuremberg his popular Mathematische und
Historische Beschreibung des Welt-Gebäudes Zum nutzlichen Gebrauch
Zweyer auf eine neue Art vefertigten Himels- und Erdkugeln, in which comparable stands are illustrated. He was succeeded by his mathematician son Johann Philipp (c.1700-after 1757), who also worked from Schwabach from 1734 onwards.