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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 | The Kugel Globe is a historical silver globe. It has long been treated as an ancient ''Greek'' globe but newer finds point to a different direction. | ||
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. | ||
Revision as of 18:13, 19 January 2026
The Kugel Globe is a historical silver globe. It has long been treated as an ancient Greek globe but newer finds point to a different direction.
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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