245 Isaac II Habrecht, Terrestrial Globe. Ca. 1621. Edition: Nuremberg, Johann Christoph Weigel. Around 1700.
Isaac II Habrecht 1589 Straßburg – 1633 ebenda
Johann Christoph Weigel 1661 Redwitz – 1726 Nürnberg
Copper engraving, 12 dwarf-shaped segments, coloured, on a plaster-ground papier-mâché hollow sphere, covered with a resin varnish. Meridian ring: wood, one side with glue-mounted paper, scaled on it in ink, horizon ring: wood with glue-mounted copper engraving and mounted, mechanical sundial, wood, with glue-mounted copper engraving, brass needle. With a four-legged, painted wooden frame.
With the cartouche (south of New Guinea, S 25°65° 10 140°-220° from Corvo): Per Illustri et
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Generosiss. Dn° Dn° EBERHARDO Dijnastae in Rappolstein, Hohenac=cio et Geroltzeccio ad Vogasinum Divi Mathiae II Imp. 83 Earth globe by lsaac Il. Habrecht. Title cartouche (Vllll l) nec non Sereniss. Maximiliani Archiducis Austriae P. M. Camerari et citeriorum Ordinum Prouincalium Praesidi Magnifico: exantigua Ducii Spoleti familia oriundi Domino meo Clementiss° Triplicem hunc globum: Caelestum sc: con vexum etconcavum vt hunc terrestrem novissimae editionis et correetionis D.D. D. Isaacus Habrecht Phil. et med. d. Argentinensis.
In northern America another cartouche: Versus Areticum Polum vlterior träsgressus haetenus non dabatur Herculis licet Davis Angli laboris id exantlatum fuerit:sicut et circa Ant: arcticum fretum novitera Guilielmo Schout detectum, la Maire nuncupatüm extremus adhuc navigationum est terminus. Quamvis nullus debitem, maxima totius orbis magnalia. Sub polis delitescere, quorü detectionem forte an: us Deus suo tempori reservat. Typis Iacobi ab Heyden ARGENTINAE
Isaac II Habrecht used the copper engravings by Willem Jansz. Blaeu and Jodocus Hondius. He copied Hondius' globe and added some details of Blaeu's globe. Antarctica is shown as a large land mass, Australia, whose west coast was already known, is missing. Habrecht drew the voyage routes of John Davis (c. 1550–1605), discovery of the Northwest Passage, of Jacob Jacob Le Maire (1585–1616) and Willem Cornelisz. Schouten (c. 1580–1625), southern Pacific and Tierra del Fuego.
Johann Christian Weigel added "Terra d'eintracht" (for part of Western Australia) and "New Zealand" to his edition. However, he did not enter the 1642 islands discovered by Abel Janszoon Tasman (c. 1603–1659) in the correct place. He depicted Antarctica as a huge land mass. Australia, whose west coast was already known at Habrecht's time, is missing. The voyage routes of John Davis (c. 1550–1605) to discover the Northwest Passage, Jacob Le Maire (1585–1616) and Willem Cornelisz. Schouten (c. 1580–1625) through the southern part of the Pacific and to Tierra del Fuego. Weigel added the names "Terra d'eintracht" for part of Western Australia and "New Zealand" to the edition he supervised, but the latter did not have the correct location of New Zealand discovered by Abel Janszoon Tasman in 1642.
Lit.: Zögner, Lothar: Die Welt in Händen. Globe and Map as a Model of Earth and Space. Exhibition catalogue Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz. Berlin, 1989. p. 31, cat. no. II/12, p. 96 and p. 100f, cat. no. VIII/1, fig. 84.
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The copper engraving segments very occasionally inconspicuously superficially rubbed. In southern North America a small pressure mark (ca. 9 x max. 5 mm). Varnish somewhat browned, more clearly in the area of the northern hemisphere. Meridian ring old replaced. Wooden frame old replaced. The turned support of the meridian ring replaced in modern times. The swivel bearing is not functional.
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H. 39 cm, D. 20 cm (Globus).
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