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A TECTONIC GLOBE
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A TECTONIC GLOBE

KURT ZIESING, 1972

Fermé21 April 2016

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GBP 1,200–1,800

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A TECTONIC GLOBE
KURT ZIESING, 1972
the 33cm-diameter globe comprised of twelve gores and two polar calottes, cartouche TECTONIC GLOBE OF THE EARTH by Kurt Ziesing Scale 1:38 600 000 Redacted by W. Thiele Edited by VEB Hermann Haack Geographisch-Kartographische Anstalt Gotha/Leipzig VLN 1001 K2/64 E 102/72 , the continents and oceans overlain by coloured regions depicting geological units, supported in graduated aluminium meridian arc on turned wooden base.
17½ (44cm.) high

Note du spécialiste

Ziesing's globe was based on his work of 1967, and was produced to demonstrated the cartographic superiority of using a three-dimensional globe as opposed to flat maps when considering global tectonic processes. The late 1960s saw a revolution in geology when Wegener's previously discredited theory of Continental Drift as well as sea-floor spreading entered into mainstream Western science. In Soviet Russia, however, the theories of plate tectonics took longer to become accepted, and a vertical theory of tectonics was preferred.