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NEWTON & SON, MID 19TH CENTURY
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A 5½-INCH CELESTIAL GLOBE
Newton & Son, mid 19th century
NEWTON'S New & Improved Celestial Globe LONDON: Newton & Son 66 Chancery Lane and 3 Fleet Street Temple Bar, made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores and two polar calottes, graduated equator and ecliptic, the constellations depicted by mythological beasts and figures, the stars to five orders of magnitude, supported in graduated brass meridian ring on modern perspex stand.
8in. (21cm.) high
Newton & Son, mid 19th century
NEWTON'S New & Improved Celestial Globe LONDON: Newton & Son 66 Chancery Lane and 3 Fleet Street Temple Bar, made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores and two polar calottes, graduated equator and ecliptic, the constellations depicted by mythological beasts and figures, the stars to five orders of magnitude, supported in graduated brass meridian ring on modern perspex stand.
8in. (21cm.) high
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