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Pocket Celestial Globe, by Newton, London, c. 1820

Inventory Number 50857

Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.50857

Item type
Object
Makers
Newton
Provenance
Presented by Lewis Evans in 1924.
Primary inscriptions
Inscribed, 'NEWTON's Improved Pocket Celestial GLOBE'
Object type
Celestial globe
Dimensions
Diameter: 75mm
Inventory No
50857
Accession Number
1924-0/part

Description

Horizon ring, brass meridian ring, zodiacal constellations and planets in northern hemisphere of fishskin case. Perhaps a pair with 53882.

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