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Description: | Terrestrial pocket globe. There are trade winds and monsoons indicated by arrows. The Dampier Strait is labelled. Australia and New Zealand are drawn according to Cook's discoveries. The tracks of Anson's voyage and Cook are shown. A total of eight oceans are named. The astronomical projection is geocentric. Stars are represented by different symbols, but a magnitude table is lacking. The Milky Way is labelled. The 48 Ptolemaic constellations and four of the non-Ptolemaic constellations are drawn. There are four of the southern constellations as well as those of Plancius and all those of Hevelius.
caption: Sphere and case | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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