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A rare pair of a celestial globe and armillary sphere
[A miniature armillary sphere and celestial globe]
Paris,
1787
The celestial globe is made up of 12 engraved gores, with full stamped paper maché meridian ring, the armillary sphere constructed of pasteboard, covered with hand-coloured paper, equator, polar and tropic circles, and celestial equator with graduations on the outer side with divisions for months and houses of the zodiac, with a full stamped pasteboard meridian circle showing graduations in degrees with hour ring and brass pointer, in the centre a globe (diameter: 2 ½ cm). Both raised on full pasteboard stamped horizon ring showing graduations in degrees supported by four pasteboard quadrants, raised on a turned ebonised column on circular plinth base.
11499
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A rare pair of a celestial globe and a Ptolemaic armillary sphere by Loysel, of whom very little is known. He appeared to have also produced a terrestrial globe, as shown in the catalogue "The world in your hands".
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