Stern Center Making Workshop: Globe Gores

Description

Rare books curator Earle Havens and conservator Jennifer Jarvis will lead a making workshop inspired by the 16th-century celestial and terrestrial globe gores of François Demongenet for the Virginia Fox Stern Center for the Study of the Book in the Renaissance.

Demongenet, who died before 1592, was a mathematician who was born and lived in Vesoul. He published two editions of globe gores of 8.5-9 cm in 1552 printed from wood blocks. In about 1560, he printed another set from copper plates (perhaps in Venice).

A gore is the panels of map that get glued onto a globe. They're shaped like an ellipsoid, wide in the middle and tapering to a point at both ends, so that they can better conform to the shape of a sphere when glued on.

The workshop is suitable for beginners. Participants will receive complimentary facsimile terrestrial and celestial globes.

This event is co-sponsored by the Sheridan Libraries' Department of Conservation and Preservation.

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