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[DELAMARCHE, Félix], Paris, early 19th-Century
A Ptolemaic armillary sphere, unsigned and undated, but probably by Félix Delamarche, the paper sun and moon suspended on wire arms (terrestrial sphere missing), with coloured printed paper Zodiac circle, polar, tropical, equatorial and hour rings, the meridian circle printed with hour scale, the horizon ring printed with figures and names for the houses of the Zodiac, graduated in days and showing the names of the months and compass points, supported by four quadrants showing latitue and longitude for various cities, mounted on an inverted baluster-shaped support and turned plinth base (hour ring bent, traces of worming) -- 19¾in. (50.2cm.) high
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A Ptolemaic armillary sphere, unsigned and undated, but probably by Félix Delamarche, the paper sun and moon suspended on wire arms (terrestrial sphere missing), with coloured printed paper Zodiac circle, polar, tropical, equatorial and hour rings, the meridian circle printed with hour scale, the horizon ring printed with figures and names for the houses of the Zodiac, graduated in days and showing the names of the months and compass points, supported by four quadrants showing latitue and longitude for various cities, mounted on an inverted baluster-shaped support and turned plinth base (hour ring bent, traces of worming) -- 19¾in. (50.2cm.) high
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