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Description: | In hoc globo / emendando suam / operam adhibuit. Rod: / Snellius, in alma. Vni / uersitate Lugdunensi / Bat. professor Ma / thematicus: vt etia / fecit Petrus Pla: / cius.
Serenissimo atq potentis: / simo Principi & Domino, / D. Christiano III. Daniae, / Noruegiae Vandalorum & / Gothorum Regi; Duci Sles: / uici, Holsatiae Stormariae / & Ditmarsiae: Comiti Ol: / denburgi & Delmenhorsti, / Jacobus florentius Vltraiectensis / dedicabat.
Celestial table globe. It forms a pair with the terrestrial globe, van Langren GLB0098. Astronomical details on the sphere include a labelled magnitude table in front of Ursa Major. The Milky Way is labelled. The Magellanic Clouds are drawn but not labelled. There is data on the astrological associations of the constellations, and 72 stars and eight star groups are named. The 48 Ptolemaic constellations and four of the non-Ptolemaic constellations are drawn. The origin of the data for two of the non-Ptolemaic constellations are explained in a text at the South Pole.
Three copies of van Langren's 325 mm celestial globe have survived, but this is the only copy with the map of the southern celestial sky. The style of the constellations and the nomenclature is mostly inspired by Mercator's 155I celestial globe, and van Langren also followed Mercator's design of gores. The star positions are correct for an epoch of 1600. The star positions could not therefore, be copied from Mercator's globe, which has an epoch of 1551. The star had to be calculated anew and was probably carried out by the astronomer and mathematician Rudolf Snellius. On van Langren's 325 mm celestial globe of 1594, the star positions of Tycho Brahe are used for the same epoch. For full details about the cartography and construction of this globe please refer to the related publication.
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caption: Sphere and stand
caption: Cartouche below Piscis Notius
caption: Globe x-ray | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | Globes at Greenwich Celestial globe celestial globes Brahe Table globe X-ray Tycho | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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