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“Unvergleichliche” Globen oder “alte Geräte---so sperrig wie nutzlos”? Die Wechselfälle der großen Coronelli-Globen zwischen 1683 und 1915 (2005/2006)

Hofmann, Catherine (Author)

Der Globusfreund: Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift für Globen- und Instrumentenkunde
Volume: 53/54
Pages: 25--43

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Globes Court sponsored science; patronage Courts and courtiers Scientific apparatus and instruments Cartography 17th century 18th century 19th century France Coronelli, Marco Vincenzo Louis XIV, King of France

Presented to Louis XIV in 1683, the great globes made by Coronelli to the order of Cardinal César d'Estrées spent over 200 years in packing cases rather than on public display, and this despite the fascination that they have never ceased to exert. After their brief period at Marly (1704-1715), they were transferred to the Royal Library which was delighted by this `additional magnificence'. Although it was never made explicit, the symbolism of the globe as a synthesis of knowledge about the world no doubt influenced their deposit in the library. Here however, the `globe salon' was not entirely finished until 1782 even though the building itself was completed in 1730. What is more, despite concerted efforts for their display, they seem to have attracted little public attention and rapidly became highly cumbersome objects for a library which, in the 19th century, was constantly in search of additional space for its reserves and reading rooms. After much hesitation they were transferred to Versailles in 1915. What are the reasons underlying these vicissitudes? The present of an ambitious courtier, and no doubt a nuisance for their recipient, objects of science but outdated even before they were mounted, remarkable art-objects, but on a colossal scale (3.90 metres diameter and 6.40 metres high) requiring a space in proportion to their size, the Coronelli globes rapidly became mere historical objects of curiosity before they acquired status as `precious documents for the state of geographical science at the end of the 17th century'.

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