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Copernican sphere
    • Setting:
      Room III
    • Maker:
      Jean Pigeon [attr.]
    • Place:
      Paris?
    • Date:
      ca. 1725
    • Materials:
      wood
    • Dimensions:
      sphere diameter 280 mm, height 455 mm, width 280 mm
    • Inventory:
      3263
    • Copernican sphere (Inv. 3263)

Armillary sphere illustrating the heliocentric system of Copernicus: the Earth is represented by a small circle carrying a smaller one representing the Moon. The golden globe of the Sun is placed at the center. The inscriptions are in French. The likely attribution to Jean Pigeon is deduced from the Lorraine inventory of 1776.