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Description: | MALBY'S / CELESTIAL / GLOBE / London 1862. / E. Stanford London.
Celestial hand globe. It forms a pair with the terrestrial globe, Standford GLB0224. Astronomical details on the sphere include a labelled magnitude table below Crater. The Milky Way is labelled, and a total of 25 stars and three star groups are named. The 48 Ptolemaic constellations and four of the non-Ptolemaic constellations are drawn. Seven of the southern constellations are drawn, as well as those of Plancius, those of Hevelius, except Triangulum Minus, and all those of Lacaille. For full details about the cartography and construction of this globe please refer to the related publication.
The case is labelled GLB0225.1.
caption: Sphere and stand
caption: Cartouche below Cetus | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | Globes at Greenwich Celestial globe Stanford Petrus hand globes Petrus Plancius Edward | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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