What are Automata?
Because of their diversity, automata are difficult to define. Here is our loose definition of them: “Machines that replicate human, animal, or inanimate objects’ motions, capabilities, and/or everyday tasks. These can be hand cranked, motor driven, or computer controlled.” This definition may be expanded as time flows. (Automata Magazine Group Forum)
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My name is Giuseppe Civitarese (aka Pino), from Visintini, Italy. I am an oceanographer, and in my second life I am a card models builder and designer. My passion for paper modelling began in 2000, when I decided to build a paper castle for my little nephew Matteo. Later, Matteo never built any paper model. On the other hand, since then I've never abandoned this hobby. My specific interest is in designing paper automata, and terrestrial and celestial globes from digital replicas of antique maps.
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Coronelli’s Celestial paper Globe (Christmas Ornament version)
Vincenzo Coronelli (August 16, 1650 – December 9, 1718) was a Franciscan friar, cosmographer, cartographer, publisher, and encyclopedist known in particular for his atlases and globes. He spent most of his life in Venice. He produced celestial and terrestrial globes … Continue reading
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Tagged 3d paper globe print out, celestial globe, Coronelli, globo celeste, paper globe
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Fabergé paper Egg
Note: texture modified from the original by 3DTaxi A Fabergé egg (Russian: Яйца Фаберже́; yaytsa faberzhe) is one of a limited number of jeweled eggs created by Peter Carl Fabergé and his company between 1885 and 1917. The most famous are … Continue reading
Romeo
Romeo was our most beloved cat. He died last year. Last spring we adopted a new kitten, who was lost in the middle of the Karst, where we live. We gave him the name of Romeo, again, because of its … Continue reading
Fragile like an egg…
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Tagged Earth, Easter, paper globe, Pasqua, Terra
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Coelum Stellatum Christianum (Christmas Ball Ornament)
Merry Christmas Happy 2015 A new year full of paper to cut, fold and glue!
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Tagged celestial globe, Cellarius, globo celeste, paper globe, Schiller
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COELUM STELLATUM CHRISTIANUM (1660)
Whilst Kepler was studying the planets motion, his son-in-law Jacob Bartsch, astronomer, Wilhelm Schickard, the astronomer and professor of Oriental languages at Tübingen, and Julius Schiller (c. 1580 – 1627), a lawyer from Ausburg, together with others were planning the … Continue reading
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Tagged celestial globe, Cellarius, globo celeste, mappamondo di carta, paper globe, paper models, Schiller
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Do you remember “The MATRIX”?
after the hako infection (2004)…
The first time the word “America”…
… appeared on Earth. Globe diameter: 12 cm In 1901 Joseph Fisher, a Jesuit historian who was conducting research in in the library of Prince Johannes zu Waldburg- Wolfegg in Wolfegg Castle in Württemberg, Germany, discovered the famous large Waldseemueller’s … Continue reading
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Tagged mappamondo di carta, paper globe, terrestrial globe, Waldseemueller
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