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Antique Brass Czech Orrery Astronomical Instruments Made by Jan Felkl in 1870

Name: Antique Brass Czech Orrery Astronomical Instruments Made by Jan Felkl in 1870
Brand: Jan Felkl
Price: 13226.93 USD
Availability: InStock

About the Item

Antique brass orrery planetarium made for the German market by Jan Felkl Prag in the second half of the nineteenth century. Cast iron base, papier mâché´ globe, with detailed territorial map and oceanic currents. Very good condition. Measures: Length 75 cm - 29.5 inch, height 48 cm - 18.8 inch, width 28 cm - 11 inch. Shipping in insured by Lloyd's London and the gift box is free (look at the last picture). Jan Felkl (1817-1878) was born in Bohemia and already in 1840 he had designed some globes in 6 different sizes. During the following 20 years he became the biggest maker of globes in market Austro-Hungarian, making terrestrial and celestial globes in 17 different languages, lunar globes and planetaria. Felkl showed his globes at international fairs in 1867 in Paris and in 1873 in Vienna. He established his Geographic and lithographic Institute in Prague for Making globes and maps. In 1870 he moved his factory from Prague to Roztok and his youngest son became his partner in the firm now named Felkl & Son, making globes and selling them all over the Europe and also in the Usa. Shipping is insured by Lloyd's London; our gift box is free (look at the last picture). The orrery is the most detailed and complex representation of the cosmos and in addition to the movement of stars,it includes movement of the sun, moon and planets, like a giant clock mechanism. Among these devices one of the oldest was an orrery by Archimedes, which Cicero speaks widely in Tusculanae Disputationes I, 63: when Roman troops sacked Syracuse in 212 BC, the consul Marcus Claudius Marcellus in Rome brought the instrument of Archimedes, who, thanks to his ability and divine intelligence that he possessed, had managed to generate the motions of planets, each so different, from a single rotation.
Because of heliocentric system theorized by Copernicus, it was possible to create mechanical antique orreries that were model of the Universe more and more accurate and precise, with the Earth revolving and turning aroud the Sun at the same time.

Creator:

Jan Felkl (Maker)

Dimensions:

Height: 18.9 in (48 cm)Width: 29.53 in (75 cm)Depth: 11.03 in (28 cm)

Materials and Techniques:

Iron

Place of Origin:

Czech Republic

Period:

1860-1869

Date of Manufacture:

Mid-Late 19th Century