An Indo-Persian silvered metal celestial globe, 12inch diameter, elaborately engraved with Ptolemaic constellations and figures, further engraved with upwards of a thousand stars indicated by a point within a circle, some named, the ecliptic and celestial equator graduated in degrees, with latitude, tropic and polar circles, zodiacal houses, equinoctial colure, solistal colure and the names of many constellations, with meridian half circle on baluster support and stand similarly engraved with celestial figures

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An Indo-Persian silvered metal celestial globe, 12inch diameter, elaborately engraved with Ptolemaic constellations and figures, further engraved with upwards of a thousand stars indicated by a point within a circle, some named, the ecliptic and celestial equator graduated in degrees, with latitude, tropic and polar circles, zodiacal houses, equinoctial colure, solistal colure and the names of many constellations, with meridian half circle on baluster support and stand similarly engraved with celestial figures
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