An early 19th-Century 12-inch English celestial table globe, by J. & W. Cary -- 61.6cm. (24¼in.) high See Colour Illustration and Detail The globe is made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores laid to the ecliptic poles, with the axis through the celestial poles. The cartouche reads CARY'S NEW CELESTIAL GLOBE ON WHICH are correctly laid down upwards of 3500 Stars Selected from the most accurate observations and calculated for the Year 1800. With the extent of each Constellation precisely defined By M R Gilpin of the ROYAL SOCIETY. Made & Sold by J.& W. Cary. Strand, London, Jan. 1. 1816 . The equatorial is graduated in degrees, hours (in two directions) and minutes; the four colures are graduated in degrees; the ecliptic shows the twilight zone and is graduated in days of the month and 12 times 1-30° with sigils for the houses of the Zodiac. The constellations are depicted by mythical beasts and figures and scientific instruments. The stars are shown in a table above the maker's cartouche to seven orders of magnitude with a symbol for nebulae; some are labelled with greek characters or arabic numerals preceded by CH or H to indicate the star catalogue of their source; others are labelled simply with numbers or letters (much darkening and wear, several areas of heat damage, some cracking to poles). There is a stamped brass hour dial and a meridian circle graduated in four quadrants. The engraved paper horizon is graduated in degrees of amplitude and azimuth with compass directions, days of the month and days of the houses of the Zodiac. The mahogany horizon is raised on four curved quadrant supports to a turned central column with a brass meridian support and three cabriole legs terminating in pad feet. The original glazed compass with engraved paper and blued-steel needle is detached but retained (NB not pictured).
An early 19th-Century 12-inch English celestial table globe, by J. & W. Cary -- 61.6cm. (24¼in.) high See Colour Illustration and Detail The globe is made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores laid to the ecliptic poles, with the axis through the celestial poles. The cartouche reads CARY'S NEW CELESTIAL GLOBE ON WHICH are correctly laid down upwards of 3500 Stars Selected from the most accurate observations and calculated for the Year 1800. With the extent of each Constellation precisely defined By M R Gilpin of the ROYAL SOCIETY. Made & Sold by J.& W. Cary. Strand, London, Jan. 1. 1816 . The equatorial is graduated in degrees, hours (in two directions) and minutes; the four colures are graduated in degrees; the ecliptic shows the twilight zone and is graduated in days of the month and 12 times 1-30° with sigils for the houses of the Zodiac. The constellations are depicted by mythical beasts and figures and scientific instruments. The stars are shown in a table above the maker's cartouche to seven orders of magnitude with a symbol for nebulae; some are labelled with greek characters or arabic numerals preceded by CH or H to indicate the star catalogue of their source; others are labelled simply with numbers or letters (much darkening and wear, several areas of heat damage, some cracking to poles). There is a stamped brass hour dial and a meridian circle graduated in four quadrants. The engraved paper horizon is graduated in degrees of amplitude and azimuth with compass directions, days of the month and days of the houses of the Zodiac. The mahogany horizon is raised on four curved quadrant supports to a turned central column with a brass meridian support and three cabriole legs terminating in pad feet. The original glazed compass with engraved paper and blued-steel needle is detached but retained (NB not pictured).
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