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Description: | CARY'SNew and improved CELESTIAL GLOBE ON WHICH Is carefully laid down the whole of the STARS AND NEBULAE Contained in the ASTRONOMICAL CATALOGUE of the Rev'd MR WALLASTON> f.R.S. Compiled from the Authorities of FLAMSTEED. DE LA CAILLE, HEVELIUS, MAYER, BRADLEY HERSCHEL, MASKELYN Scc With an extensive number from the works of Miss Herschel. The whole adopted to the year 1800, and the limits of each constellation determined by a boundary line. -------------- LONDON Made and Sold by J & W. Cary No. 181 Strand March 1799 (makers trade plate printed in a circular cartouche on the globe). MANU Cary circa 1890 181 Strand, London, England. DES after FLAMSTEED,John. 1725 London, England. DES after DE LA CAILLE,Nicolas,Louis,Abbe, 1763 Paris, France. DES after HEVELIUS[HEWELKE], Johannes. 1690 Gdansk, Poland. This large floor standing celestial globe, standing on a mahogany, tripod base, depicts the night sky in the year 1800. It has the constellations in both northern and southern hemispheres printed on the globe although the southern hemisphere would not have been used . To view the southern hemisphere properly the instrument would have to be dismantled and the globe turned upside down.
The globe's polar axis is angled at 22.5 degrees, the same as the Earth and it is supported by a circular brass meridian dial. The horizon is in the form of a paper scale on a wooden ring which has the cardinal points, the calendar and zodical calendar. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | SCIENTIFIC COLLECTION : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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