How to build a planet?

This title is not a new project for terraforming Mars or a “Plan B” for the time after the climate catastrophe. The title describes the anachronistic activity of traditional globe making. Admittedly, this craft seems out of time in times of Google Maps and GPS navigation. So why learn anything about traditional globe making? In my lecture I will present the work of my “Plantenkugel Manufaktur” founded in 2015. On the one hand I show a traditionally made Mars globe based on the fantastic map by Percival Lowell from 1905. Secondly a NASA based moon relief globe with hand painted albedo will be presented. Selected historical milestones of Martian and Lunar globes will be shown and the making of the two different types of globes will be looked at in detail. Since there are only a handful of traditionally working globe makers left in the world, the manufacturing details can only be gathered with difficulty. After the lecture, you will be able to create your own world – be it Mars, Jupiter, our Sun or the moons of Mars.

Since 2017 Prof. Dr. Michael Plichta is Professor of experimental Psychiatry, Dept. of Psychiatry, Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, at the University Hospital in Frankfurt. NASA based Moon Globe with raised relief. From 2015 to 2016 he was Head of Laboratory, University Hospital Zurich (USZ), Dept. of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (Prof. Ulrich Schnyder). In 2015 Michael worked at the Establishment of the Planetenkugel Manufaktur (PKM) – First globe “Mars and its Canals”. In 2009 and 2010 he got his Post-Doc at Central Institute of Mental Health (CIMH), Mannheim (Prof. Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg). Since 2004 to 2009 he was a PhD student,  at Laboratory of Psychophysiology & Functional Imaging, Department of Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, University Hospital, Würzburg, PhD degree (“summa cum laude”). And since 200 to 2004 he made his Psychology studies, at the University of Giessen, Diploma in psychology, University of Giessen.

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