Pocket Terrestrial and Celestial Globe, English, c. 1775

Inventory Number 48095

Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.48095

Subject: Astronomy; Globes
Item type: Object
Provenance: Presented by Rowland Bergh. Owned and used by Augustus Bergh (1778-1864), master mariner, ship owner, and writer.
Primary inscriptions: Cartouche on the terrestrial: "A Correct / GLOBE / with the new / Discoveries"; on the celestial "A Correct Globe / with ye New Cons- / telations of Dr / Halley &c."
Object type: Celestial globe
Dimensions: Diameter: 80mm
Inventory No: 48095
Accession Number: 1969-139

Unsigned pocket globe in fishskin covered case, lined with gores comprising a celestial map.