Description
It comprises two sets of twelve finely engraved and hand-colored gores and two polar calottes (70°) laid to the ecliptic poles of a papier-maché and plaster sphere, the axis through the celestial poles.
The northern and southern constellations comprise some additions to the Ptolemaic group, while those of the zodiac are the conventional ones. The engraver is not mentioned, but was probably Charles Simmoneau, member of the Académie Royale des Sciences. Also Claude Auguste Berey (fl. 1689-1722) has worked for De L'Isle.
The globe is mounted on a tall French ebonised oak stand, featuring a papered horizon ring supported by four turned legs united by plain stretchers that support the base plate and central pillars. Height 52 cm. Diameter of the globe 32,5 cm. The horizon ring is in facsimile and graduated in individual days of the houses of the Zodiac, with sigils and labelled every ten days. The globe has some minor restoration and its surface has been recently varnished. The globe is geberally in good condition.
Title in a cartouche : GLOBE CELESTE Calcule pour l´an 1700 sur les observations les plus ... P. G. de l´Isle cartographe".
With address "A Paris chez l´auteur rue des Canettes Faubourg St. Germain prés de St. Sulpice Avec Privilege du Roy pour 20 ans. 1700".
With a dedication "A SON ALTESSE ROYALE MONSEGNIEUR LE DUC DE CHARTRES par son très humble et très obéissant serviteur De l'Isle."
The title of duc de Chartres was given by Louis XIV of France to his nephew, Philippe II d'Orléans, at his birth in 1674. Philippe II was the younger son and heir of the king's brother, Philippe de France, Duke of Orléans.
The following examples of the 1700-dated celestial globe are recorded:
- Terrestrial globe in Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Cartes et plans, GE A-1123 (RES), (ref.: 12148/btv1b550087149) This globe shows A Paris chez l´auteur rue des Canettes Faubourg St. Germain prés de St. Sulpice Avec Privilege du Roy pour 20 ans. 1699".
- This example with A Paris chez l´auteur rue des Canettes Faubourg St. Germain prés de St. Sulpice Avec Privilege du Roy pour 20 ans. 1700"..
A few other examples exist, but they either list the address as "Quai de l'Horloge" or do not specify the address.
- Terrestrial printed globe gores in BNF, formerly at the Bibliothèque au Service hydrographique de la Marine, have "Quai de l'Horloge".
- The Museo Galileo in Florence, Italy. (Medici collections, inv 974; Grand Duke Peter Leopold donated to the Museo di Fisica e Storia Naturale of Florence at its foundation in 1775.) Bearing the latter address "Quai de l'Horloge".
- National Maritime Museum of Greenwich (GLB0146) bears the "Quai de l'Horloge" address.
- Stevenson mentions a terrestrial globe dated 1700 in the Real Biblioteca of Madrid. Publisher's address unknown.
Stevenson does not mention a celestial or terrestrial globe with the "Rue de Canettes" address in his book Terrestrial and Celestial Globes, , volume 2.
- Musée national du château de Versailles, France. The catalog description (Nº d'inventaire: VMB 14751.1) does not mention the address.
- A terrestrial globe sold at Christie's on 7 December 2009. Unknown address.
A pair sold at Christies, sale 5586. lot 147, 25 June 1997. The catalog description does not mention the address.
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