Accession No
6283
Brief Description
dissected paper / card globe, with orthographic terrestrial / astrolabic projections, by E. S. Thomas, English [attributed], 1831
Origin
South Town [attributed to England, e.g. Village in Hampshire, or part of Great Yarmouth]
Maker
Thomas, E. S.
Class
astronomy
Earliest Date
1831
Latest Date
1831
Inscription Date
1831
Material
card, watercolour paint
Dimensions
base: 115mm diameter overall height: c.155mm
Special Collection
Provenance
Purchased from Christie's, London, 21/01/2009. Lot 589 in The Roger Warner Collection sale.
Inscription
DISSECTED GLOBE E.S. Thomas South Town. Decbr 1833
Description Notes
Dissected paper globe, with orthographic terrestrial / astrolabic projections, by ES Thomas, South Town, English, December 1831.
Card globe comprising nine sheets of thick card slotted together to form a quasi-three dimensional sphere. Rotating the sphere allows three different orthographic projections to be viewed - two terrestrial projections (of the western and eastern hemispheres) and one astrolabic/universal stereographic projection (showing the path of the sun through the signs of the zodiac).
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Events
Description
This globe appears to be a copy of a published globe that the maker undertook as an individual project; it did not come from a mass-produced kit. It is constructed from card and watercolour paints. It is likely that the globe was made to aid in the study of geography and astronomy. The nine card sections that make up the globe contain three separate map projections, two showing the Western and Eastern hemispheres of the Earth, and one showing the path of the Sun through the signs of the Zodiac.
14/01/2014
Created by: Allison Ksiazkiewicz on 14/01/2014
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