The Globe of Gottorf (German: Gottorper Globus or Gottorfer Globus) is a 17th century large globe of the earth in the Kunstkammer museum in St.Petersburg in Russia. It measures 3.1 meters in diameter.
The globe details a map of the earth’s surface on the outside and a map of star constellations with astrological and mythological symbols on the inside. Turned by water power, it demonstrates the “movement” of the heavens to those seated inside in candlelight. It was a predecessor of the modern planetarium.
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“Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits, and
Are melted into air, into thin air.
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
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Yea, all which it inherit—shall dissolve
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Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
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Is rounded with a sleep.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)