Kugel Globe - Revision history

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	[[File:Kugel panorama.jpg\|thumb\|high resolution drawing of the Kugel Globe, published in Hoffmann (2025)<ref name=":0">Hoffmann, Susanne M (2025), Some Results on the Ancient Globes, Globe Studies – The Journal of the International Coronelli Society, 69, 4169</ref>]]		[[File:Kugel panorama.jpg\|thumb\|high resolution drawing of the Kugel Globe, published in Hoffmann (2025)<ref name=":0">Hoffmann, Susanne M (2025), Some Results on the Ancient Globes, Globe Studies – The Journal of the International Coronelli Society, 69, 4169</ref>]]
	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 middle of the first millennium CE (from the fourth century onwards).<ref name=":1">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). [https://www.sciengine.com/JAHH/doi/10.3724/SP.J.1440-2807.2025.04.10 PDF online]</ref>		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 middle of the first millennium CE (from the fourth century onwards).<ref name=":1">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). [https://www.sciengine.com/JAHH/doi/10.3724/SP.J.1440-2807.2025.04.10 PDF online]</ref>

			=== The Object ===
	Hoffmann (2025):<ref name=":0" /> <blockquote>		Hoffmann (2025):<ref name=":0" /> <blockquote>
	"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’." </blockquote>The Kugel Globe is owned by the private collection of Nicolas and Alexis Kugel, Paris.		"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’." </blockquote>The Kugel Globe is owned by the private collection of Nicolas and Alexis Kugel, Paris.

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	[[File:Kugel panorama.jpg\|thumb\|high resolution drawing of the Kugel Globe, published in Hoffmann (2025)<ref name=":0">Hoffmann, Susanne M (2025), Some Results on the Ancient Globes, Globe Studies – The Journal of the International Coronelli Society, 69, 4169</ref>]]		[[File:Kugel panorama.jpg\|thumb\|high resolution drawing of the Kugel Globe, published in Hoffmann (2025)<ref name=":0">Hoffmann, Susanne M (2025), Some Results on the Ancient Globes, Globe Studies – The Journal of the International Coronelli Society, 69, 4169</ref>]]

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	[[File:Kugel panorama.jpg\|thumb\|high resolution drawing of the Kugel Globe, published in Hoffmann (2025)<ref name=":0">Hoffmann, Susanne M (2025), Some Results on the Ancient Globes, Globe Studies – The Journal of the International Coronelli Society, 69, 4169</ref>]]		[[File:Kugel panorama.jpg\|thumb\|high resolution drawing of the Kugel Globe, published in Hoffmann (2025)<ref name=":0">Hoffmann, Susanne M (2025), Some Results on the Ancient Globes, Globe Studies – The Journal of the International Coronelli Society, 69, 4169</ref>]]

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	[[File:Kugel panorama.jpg\|thumb\|high resolution drawing of the Kugel Globe, published in Hoffmann (2025)<ref name=":0">Hoffmann, Susanne M (2025), Some Results on the Ancient Globes, Globe Studies – The Journal of the International Coronelli Society, 69, 4169</ref>]]		[[File:Kugel panorama.jpg\|thumb\|high resolution drawing of the Kugel Globe, published in Hoffmann (2025)<ref name=":0">Hoffmann, Susanne M (2025), Some Results on the Ancient Globes, Globe Studies – The Journal of the International Coronelli Society, 69, 4169</ref>]]

Sushoff at 04:29, 8 June 2026

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	[[File:Kugel panorama.jpg\|thumb\|high resolution drawing of the Kugel Globe, published in Hoffmann (2025)<ref name=":0">Hoffmann, Susanne M (2025), Some Results on the Ancient Globes, Globe Studies – The Journal of the International Coronelli Society, 69, 4169</ref>]]		[[File:Kugel panorama.jpg\|thumb\|high resolution drawing of the Kugel Globe, published in Hoffmann (2025)<ref name=":0">Hoffmann, Susanne M (2025), Some Results on the Ancient Globes, Globe Studies – The Journal of the International Coronelli Society, 69, 4169</ref>]]

Sushoff at 04:28, 8 June 2026

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	[[File:Kugel panorama.jpg\|thumb\|high resolution drawing of the Kugel Globe, published in Hoffmann (2025)<ref name=":0">Hoffmann, Susanne M (2025), Some Results on the Ancient Globes, Globe Studies – The Journal of the International Coronelli Society, 69, 4169</ref>]]		[[File:Kugel panorama.jpg\|thumb\|high resolution drawing of the Kugel Globe, published in Hoffmann (2025)<ref name=":0">Hoffmann, Susanne M (2025), Some Results on the Ancient Globes, Globe Studies – The Journal of the International Coronelli Society, 69, 4169</ref>]]
	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 middle of the first millennium CE (from the fourth century onwards).<ref>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). [https://www.sciengine.com/JAHH/doi/10.3724/SP.J.1440-2807.2025.04.10 PDF online]</ref>		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 middle of the first millennium CE (from the fourth century onwards).<ref name=":1">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). [https://www.sciengine.com/JAHH/doi/10.3724/SP.J.1440-2807.2025.04.10 PDF online]</ref>
	Hoffmann (2025):<ref name=":0" /> <blockquote>		Hoffmann (2025):<ref name=":0" /> <blockquote>
	"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’." </blockquote>The Kugel Globe is owned by the private collection of Nicolas and Alexis Kugel, Paris.		"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’." </blockquote>The Kugel Globe is owned by the private collection of Nicolas and Alexis Kugel, Paris.
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	There is therefore much to suggest that this small silver globe by Nicolas and Alexis Kugel in Paris is likely to be of Indian origin and has numerous foreign influences – e.g. Greek, Chinese, and perhaps also Persian.		There is therefore much to suggest that this small silver globe by Nicolas and Alexis Kugel in Paris is likely to be of Indian origin and has numerous foreign influences – e.g. Greek, Chinese, and perhaps also Persian.

	We ~~have~~ published these clues only in a brief report by some 25 experts and hope that other colleagues, who are more knowledgeable than we are, will now finally be able to correctly classify the Kugel globe.		We published these clues only in a brief report<ref name=":1" /> by some 25 experts and hope that other colleagues, who are more knowledgeable than we are, will now finally be able to correctly classify the Kugel globe.

	There is clearly still much research to be done on this!		There is clearly still much research to be done on this!

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Sushoff at 12:11, 7 June 2026

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	[[File:Kugel panorama.jpg\|thumb\|high resolution drawing of the Kugel Globe, published in Hoffmann (2025)<ref name=":0">Hoffmann, Susanne M (2025), Some Results on the Ancient Globes, Globe Studies – The Journal of the International Coronelli Society, 69, 4169</ref>]]		[[File:Kugel panorama.jpg\|thumb\|high resolution drawing of the Kugel Globe, published in Hoffmann (2025)<ref name=":0">Hoffmann, Susanne M (2025), Some Results on the Ancient Globes, Globe Studies – The Journal of the International Coronelli Society, 69, 4169</ref>]]
	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 middle of the first millennium CE (from the fourth century onwards).<ref>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).</ref>		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 middle of the first millennium CE (from the fourth century onwards).<ref>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). [https://www.sciengine.com/JAHH/doi/10.3724/SP.J.1440-2807.2025.04.10 PDF online]</ref>
	Hoffmann (2025):<ref name=":0" /> <blockquote>		Hoffmann (2025):<ref name=":0" /> <blockquote>
	"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’." </blockquote>The Kugel Globe is owned by the private collection of Nicolas and Alexis Kugel, Paris.		"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’." </blockquote>The Kugel Globe is owned by the private collection of Nicolas and Alexis Kugel, Paris.

YoulaAzkarrula at 06:03, 24 May 2026

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	[[File:Kugel panorama.jpg\|thumb\|high resolution drawing of the Kugel Globe, published in Hoffmann (2025)<ref name=":0">Hoffmann, Susanne M (2025), Some Results on the Ancient Globes, Globe Studies – The Journal of the International Coronelli Society, 69, 4169</ref>]]		[[File:Kugel panorama.jpg\|thumb\|high resolution drawing of the Kugel Globe, published in Hoffmann (2025)<ref name=":0">Hoffmann, Susanne M (2025), Some Results on the Ancient Globes, Globe Studies – The Journal of the International Coronelli Society, 69, 4169</ref>]]
	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 middle of the first millennium CE (from the fourth century onwards).<ref>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).</ref>		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 middle of the first millennium CE (from the fourth century onwards).<ref>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).</ref>

Sushoff at 16:43, 23 April 2026

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	[[File:Kugel panorama.jpg\|thumb\|high resolution drawing of the Kugel Globe, published in Hoffmann (2025)<ref name=":0">Hoffmann, Susanne M (2025), Some Results on the Ancient Globes, Globe Studies – The Journal of the International Coronelli Society, 69, 4169</ref>]]		[[File:Kugel panorama.jpg\|thumb\|high resolution drawing of the Kugel Globe, published in Hoffmann (2025)<ref name=":0">Hoffmann, Susanne M (2025), Some Results on the Ancient Globes, Globe Studies – The Journal of the International Coronelli Society, 69, 4169</ref>]]
	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).<ref>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).</ref>		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 middle of the first millennium CE (from the fourth century onwards).<ref>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).</ref>
	Hoffmann (2025):<ref name=":0" /> <blockquote>		Hoffmann (2025):<ref name=":0" /> <blockquote>
	"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’." </blockquote>The Kugel Globe is owned by the private collection of Nicolas and Alexis Kugel, Paris.		"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’." </blockquote>The Kugel Globe is owned by the private collection of Nicolas and Alexis Kugel, Paris.