Kugel Globe
The Kugel Globe is a historical silver globe. It has long been treated as an ancient Greek globe but newer finds point to an Indian origin in the first centuries CE (from the fourth century onwards).[2]
Hoffmann (2025):[1]
"The three preserved globes are artistic objects that were used for decoration or visualization. The holes at the poles of the globe in Mainz and at the North Pole of the Farnese Globe indicate that the small globe was impaled on a (wooden?) rod and that the marble globe was mounted at a supporting position of an architecture, possibly as a sort of unconventional column capital. None of the three is a scientific instrument. From Ptolemy’s Almagest (Alm. VIII, 3), we can infer the function of a scientific globe in antiquity: Such globes served as ‘analogue computers’."
The Kugel Globe is owned by the private collection of Nicolas and Alexis Kugel, Paris.
The IAU WGSN thanks Alexis Kugel for the permission to publish these detailed photographs in the ASE.
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Hoffmann, Susanne M (2025), Some Results on the Ancient Globes, Globe Studies – The Journal of the International Coronelli Society, 69, 4169
- ↑ Susanne M. Hoffmann,* Khalid AlAjaji, B.S. Shylaja, Yang Boshun, Danielle Adams, Eric Mamajek, Ian Ridpath, Paul Baki, Juan Antonio Belmonte Avilés, Sze-Leung Cheung, Daniel Cunnama, Jörg Matthias Determann, M. Sadegh Faghanpour, Steven Gullberg, Duane Hamacher, Roland Laffitte, Alejandro M. López, Javier Mejuto, Thierry Montmerle, Clive Ruggles, Shi Yunli, Doris Vickers, Sun Xiaochun, and Hitoshi Yamaoka (2025). The IAU Working Group on Star Names (WGSN): Research Finds in 2025. Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage, 28(4), 1026–1038 (2025).
