NEWTON, John (1759-1844), London

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NEWTON, John (1759-1844), London
NEWTON'S New & Improved Terrestrial Pocket Globe No 66, Chancery Lane London
A 3-inch (7.6cm.) diameter terrestrial pocket globe made up of twelve hand coloured engraved gores, the prime meridian marked Meridian of London, ungraduated, the equatorial graduated in degrees, the ecliptic graduated in days on the zodiac house and of the month, and showing the symbols of the zodiac, the continents coloured in outline, the oceans showing the voyages of Captain Cook, and Clark and Gore, and The Improved Analemma ... Pub. Jan. 1, 1817, the Antarctic showing Sandwich Land and Isles of Ice (neat restoration, some loss of image), with lacquered brass hour ring graduated I - XII twice, meridian ring divided into four quadrants, in fishskin-covered case with hand coloured engraved horizon ring (section supplied in manuscript facsimile), hand coloured engraved celestial diagram depicting the Sun, Earth, Jupiter, Mercury, Venus, Herschal, Mars, Saturn and other planets and stars lining the upper half, three brass hooks and pins

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Provenance

Mel Blanc Collection

Literature

CLIFTON, Gloria Directory Of British Scientific Instrument Makers 1550-1851 (London, 1995)
DEKKER, Elly and Peter van der KROGT Globes From The Western World (London, 1993)
KROGT, Peter van der Old Globes In The Netherlands (Utrecht, 1984)

Lot Essay

Clifton notes (pp. 22, 136 and 207) that John Newton was apprenticed to Thomas Bateman (fl. 1746-81) in 1774, who, in turn, had been the apprentice of Nathaniel Hill in 1746 (fl. 1746-81). John Newton and William Palmer (fl. 1753-1803) took over the businesses of both Hill and Bateman, and Palmer and Newton published an edition of Hill's 1754 pocket globe (lot xx), as did Newton in 1783 (Dekker and van der Krogt pp. 115 and 118, figs. 56 and 57). Newton left this partnership in 1783, and worked at numbers 128 and 97 Chancery Lane, before moving to number 66 in 1817, where the company he founded would stay until 1883 (Clifton, p. 200). A similar globe is described by van der Krogt as New 1.

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