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Terrestrial and celestial pocket globe
| titel | Terrestrial and celestial pocket globe
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| inventarisnummer | GLB0040
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| collectie | Globes
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| museum | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
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| datum | after 1833
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| omschrijving | Terrestrial and celestial pocket globe. Geographical details on the terrestrial sphere are the same as Adams GLB0200, but updated by the addition of 'Meridian of Greenwich' and a notice about Cook's death. The track of the voyage by Ross is also added. The region north of the Arctic Circle is completely changed by a newly engraved polar calotte. In the south polar region Enderby's Land 1833 is mapped. Compass points have been added west of the Cape of Good Hope, and along the equator the hours are indicated. The location of the 'Antipodes to London' are marked. The monsoons in the Indian Sea are recorded, the 'Chinese Wall' is depicted and California is drawn as a peninsula. Australia and New Zealand are drawn according to the Dutch discoveries. The track of Anson is recorded and labelled and five oceans are named.
Astronomical details on the inside of the case are the same as those of the same Ferguson, GLB0057, but the southern hemisphere hour angles are added and a zodiacal belt is drawn. Stars are represented by different symbols, but a magnitude table is absent. The Milky Way is labelled. Six stars and two star groups are named. The 48 Ptolemaic constellations and four of the non-Ptolemaic constellations are drawn. Four of the southern constellations are drawn as well as those of Plancius and Hevelius. For full details about the cartography and construction of this globe please refer to the related publication.
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| afmetingen | Diameter: 85 mm; Sphere diameter: 76 mm
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