The Mars Globe

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Mars efter Lowell's Glober 1894-1914.

BRUN, Emmy Ingeborg
Denmark,
[1918?].
Globe, papier mâché with original ink and body hand-colouring, plaster coating, small area of loss, varnished, brass horizon ring, black painted wooden base [with] brown paper booklet, stab bound, seven photographs, protected by tissue paper, handwritten paper label pasted to inside cover, manuscript notes [and] brown paper booklet, stab bound, photograph protected by tissue paper, manuscript notes.
Diameter: 140mm (5.5 inches). Overhall height: 290mm (11.5 inches).
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notes:

notes:

A rare and fascinating manuscript globe of Mars, suggestive of the possibility of Martian civilisation. This model is accompanied by two small handmade booklets, of particular interest because they contain contemporary pictures of the creation of Brun's globes. The globe and booklets together suggest the social and political impact of contemporary scientific discoveries, and the politicisation of inquiries into space.

Biography
Emmy Ingeborg Brun (1872-1929)...

bibliography:

bibliography:

George Basalla, Civilized Life in the Universe: Scientists on Intelligent Extraterrestrials (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), pp.86-87; Poultney Bigelow, 'The German Emperor: William II and Henry George', The Single Tax Review, March-April 1912, pp.16-19.

provenance:

provenance:

Sophus Berthelsen (1864-1930), Danish lawyer and intellectual, and thence by descent.