Article ID: CBB001024616

Die Manuskriptgloben des Fritz Kerner von Marilaun (2005/2006)

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The Globe Museum of the Austrian National Library holds two manuscript globes that are of interest with respect to late 19th century history of science in Austria. These are a terrestrial globe showing the contours of main lands during the Upper Jura period (also known as Malm, ca. 150 million years ago), as well as a Mars globe showing the allegedly discovered canals. The maker of the two globes was the geologist and paleo-climatologist Fritz Kerner von Marilaun (1866-1944), active at the Geologische Reichsanstalt (Geologische Bundesanstalt respectively) in Vienna. The two objects originally were standard terrestrial globes (Ø 16 cm) published by the publishing house Jan Felkl. Shortly after 1890, Kerner painted the new cartographic representations over the printed gores. The map of the terrestrial globe is based on the ideas of the Bavarian geologist and paleontologist Melchior Neumayr (1845-1890) who had worked in Vienna. In his classic textbook, Erdgeschichte (1887/1890), the images of Jurassic continents are projected over those of today. According to the theory of fixism proposed by Neumayr and his famous colleague, Eduard Sueß, the entire area containing an earlier contiguous Mesozoic southern continent (Gondwana) was submerged by what today is the Indian Ocean and the southern Atlantic Ocean. This supposedly happened without any horizontal movement of land masses. Kerner's Mars globe was based on observations by the Italian astronomer Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli (1835-1910). Although Kerner's cartographic image is somewhat imprecise, the formations on the surface of Mars can be identified.

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Description On two globes in the Austrian National Library: a terrestrial globe on the land masses during the Upper Jura period and a Mars globe showing the allegedly discovered canals.


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Authors & Contributors
Gianni, Celeste
Tagliabracci, Michele
Sumira, Sylvia
Utsunomiya, Yojiro
Török, Zsolt
Schneider, Ulrich Johannes
Concepts
Globes
Globes, celestial
Scientific apparatus and instruments
Geography
Cartography
Instruments, astronomical
Time Periods
19th century
17th century
16th century
18th century
Ancient
21st century
Places
Germany
France
Budapest (Hungary)
Palestine
London (England)
Hungary
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