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Celestial globe
    • Setting:
      Room III
    • Author:
      John Cary, William Cary
    • Date:
      1816
    • Materials:
      paper, wood
    • Dimensions:
      sphere diameter 460 mm, height 1140 mm, width 630 mm
    • Inventory:
      3842
    • Celestial globe (Inv. 3842)
    • Celestial globe (Inv. 3842)

Nineteenth-century celestial globe covered by 18 gores. Mounted on an English-type wooden tripod stand with a magnetic compass on the base. There are inscriptions in Latin and English. The constellations are depicted by elegant figures. Paired with the terrestrial globe inv. 3841.

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