Claude Félix DELAMARCHE (1779-1835)

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Claude Félix DELAMARCHE (1779-1835)
Set of four spheres made of cardboard and engraved paper. Turned legs in blackened fruitwood. The globe indicates in two cartouches: "- Globe drawn up according to the most recent discoveries by C.F. Delamarche, successor of Robert de Vaugondy, geographer. 1824. - In Paris at the author's home. Rue du jardinet n°13. Quartier Saint-André des Ares." The celestial globe is signed DELAMARCHE in Paris. Planetary Copernican bandeau. Armillary sphere of the Ptolemaic type. France, early 19th century. H. 42 cm. Diam. 18 cm. The four spheres have been cleaned and restored and are in good condition. The globe or sphere will gradually assert itself through European explorations, the Renaissance and the scientific revolutions from Copernicus to Newton until it becomes a familiar object with a high symbolic value. A circle parallel to the horizon and lowered below the horizon by 18 degrees is called a twilight circle; it is the terminating circle of twilights. From the beginning of the 16th century, globes were mass-produced using flat-printed spindles glued onto spheres. In the 18th century, glob manufacturers provided a form of after-sales service by supplying their customers with card elements to be glued onto the globe. Charles François Delamarche (1740-1817) dominated the market, particularly with his 32.5 cm diameter globes. Delamarche had bought Robert de Vaugondy's documentary collection and exploited this documentation. This was the starting point of a dynasty of glob makers spanning three generations. Claude Félix Delamarche was a French geographer born in Paris on 20 October 1779 and died in Paris on 5 January 1835. He took over the family geographic publishing house on the death of his father.
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