A strategy and more high-tech tools
June 2013
Experts from UNIL’s School of Forensic Science (ESC) are asked to devise a coherent strategy for further testing […]
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An intriguing theory
2005
Suppose the globes came to Lausanne thanks to one of the great scientific figures of the 18th century ? Unfortunately, this theory cannot be proved […]
Inconclusive evidence
2005
Labels pasted on the underside of the two stands suggest the globes might have a connection to the History of Science Museum in Geneva. Yet there is no trace of the globes in its inventories […]
How did they come to Lausanne ?
1976
Bernard Hauck, a professor of astronomy at UNIL, remembers having moved the globes to Dorigny from the old premises of the Observatory on Chemin des Grandes-Roches […]
Dating the spheres
2013 and 2015
More samples are taken, this time from the two spheres’ surface paper and textile substrata, for AMS radiocarbon testing […]
1875 facsimiles ?
June 2013
The project team meets with Dr Peter van der Krogt of the Universities of Amsterdam and Utrecht, an expert on Dutch globes of the 16th and 17th centuries […]
Sounding out an historian
13 June 2013
The project team meets with Dr Peter van der Krogt of the Universities of Amsterdam and Utrecht, an expert on Dutch globes of the 16th and 17th centuries […]
Dating the stands
August 2012
Samples are taken from the stands of the terrestrial and celestial globes for C14 radiocarbon dating. The relevance of the samples is ensured using dendrochronology (growth-ring analysis) […]
Capturing the globes in images
2011-2012
Laurent Dubois of the Cantonal and University Library of Lausanne at Dorigny photographs the globes for the first time in high definition […]
Two women enter the scene
Spring 2010
The project is relaunched by setting up a working group under the aegis of Unicom and with the support of the Faculty of Geosciences and the Environment […]