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Newton & Son / POCKET GLOBE
12.500,00 Categories: , ,
London, 1835 - London, Newton & Son
Nr. 12638

A 3-inch (7.6cm.) diameter terrestrial globe made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores, cartouche in north Pacific NEWTON’S New & Improved TERRESTRIAL GLOBE. Published by Newton & Son 66 Chancery Lane & 3. Fleet St, Temple Bar. The equatorial graduated in degrees, the Meridian of London ungraduated, the ecliptic graduated in days of the houses [...]

Newton’s new & improved terrestrial and celestial globes The diameter of the globes is 2.75 inches (7 cm). The total height, including the stands, is 6.75 inches (15 cm). A beautiful pair of miniature desk globes, with 12 hand-colored engraved gores on plaster spheres, mounted to nineteenth-century calibrated brass meridian rings and carved wooden stands. [...]