A rare mid 18th-Century astronomical engraving, with text The best Globes of 3. 9. 12. 17. & 27 Inches Diameter from the latest observations & discoveries. Made and Sold by Mary Senex over against S t Dunstans Church in Fleet Street London. NB her Globes may be known from all others, by having Bayers letters of refference incerted on the Coelestial, & the Rhumb lines on the Terrestrial, besides other improvements , No.IV, with 63 diagrams showing various astronomical phenomena and characteristics, the Moon, armillary spheres, globe gore arrangement, an astronomical quadrant, a Sutton quadrant and others -- 38 x 36cm. (15 x 14 1/8in.) framed and glazed
A rare mid 18th-Century astronomical engraving, with text The best Globes of 3. 9. 12. 17. & 27 Inches Diameter from the latest observations & discoveries. Made and Sold by Mary Senex over against S t Dunstans Church in Fleet Street London. NB her Globes may be known from all others, by having Bayers letters of refference incerted on the Coelestial, & the Rhumb lines on the Terrestrial, besides other improvements , No.IV, with 63 diagrams showing various astronomical phenomena and characteristics, the Moon, armillary spheres, globe gore arrangement, an astronomical quadrant, a Sutton quadrant and others -- 38 x 36cm. (15 x 14 1/8in.) framed and glazed
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