A Dean White Ptolemaic brass armillary sphere, English, modern, signed Dean R. White fecit Bampton Devonia, 2008, No.8, the primary sphere of 7in (17.5cm) diameter comprising eight brass rings, two meridians and five parallel rings representing the polar circles, the tropics and the equator, and a zodiacal band, centred by a sphere representing the Earth, the primary sphere mounted in a graduated brass meridian ring and within a horizon ring graduated with four quadrants, calendar and zodiac scales, raised on turned brass baluster column above circular platform, four scroll legs and compass mounted on star-shaped base with stamped with cardinal points, 16in (41cm) high
A Dean White Ptolemaic brass armillary sphere, English, modern, signed Dean R. White fecit Bampton Devonia, 2008, No.8, the primary sphere of 7in (17.5cm) diameter comprising eight brass rings, two meridians and five parallel rings representing the polar circles, the tropics and the equator, and a zodiacal band, centred by a sphere representing the Earth, the primary sphere mounted in a graduated brass meridian ring and within a horizon ring graduated with four quadrants, calendar and zodiac scales, raised on turned brass baluster column above circular platform, four scroll legs and compass mounted on star-shaped base with stamped with cardinal points, 16in (41cm) high
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