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2018 | Supplement | Chapter
On the ‘De-measuring’ of Time and Space in the Models of the World of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Author : Andreas Christoph
Published in: Dissemination of Cartographic Knowledge
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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Abstract
Terrestrial and celestial globes as well as planetaria, telluria and lunaria are representative models of the cosmos with high cultural and scientific importance. At a time when a global point of view is increasingly adopted by historians, the importance of these ‘chronotopical’ objects in the fields of history of science, cultural history, history of geography and arts necessitates the appreciation of the variety of globes, the involved protagonists, the history of manufacturing methods and technical innovations in globe production. Moreover, new technologies for visualizing old globes, will allow these physical objects to be transferred into virtual reality.