Rath ME 33-20

Diam. 33cm. Height 54cm, gold coloured metal circular meridian, wooden foot, Thanks to the circular meridian you can look at the globe from all sides.

A facsimile of the historical terrestrial globe of Gerhard Mercator (1512-1594). The terrestrial globe dates from the year 1541. It is a first class product. Before Mercator started with this globe he rated all geographical and cartographical information available to him and studied the latest discoveries. In this way he created a terrestrial globe with the most accurate map of the earth than al other maps from that time.

This globe comes in a wooden rack with three turned legs and glued on horizon circle and gold coloured circular meridian.

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