Celestial Globe
date: label: date made
content: ca 1890
name: label: maker
content: Schedler, Joseph
label: maker
content: Schedler, Herman
notes: label: Description
content: The cartouche reads “H. SCHEDLER’S / CELESTIAL GLOBE / (12 inch diameter) / Exhibiting all the stars visible to / the naked eye up to the sixth magnitude / H. SCHEDLER. / JERSEY CITY, N.J. / Patented Nov. 1868 / Entered according to Act of Congress.” Broken black lines represent the constellation boundaries, while the constellation figures are in red.
label: Description
content: The globe has a three-legged wooden stand with metal braces, a metal horizon circle, and a metal meridian circle.
label: Description
content: Joseph Schedler was a German immigrant who worked in New York and New Jersey, publishing books and globes. His globes won medals at several local and international exhibitions, and were widely used in the public schools of several American cities. His son Herman continued the business from the late 1880s until after the turn of the century. The referenced patent on this globe was #84,398 issued to Edward Weissenborn. It pertained to an “Improvement in the Construction of School Globes.”
label: Description
content: This example was owned by Samuel Corby, an itinerant science lecturer who succeeded to the business begun by his father-in-law, Charles Came.
label: Description
content: Ref: <i>Schedler’s Illustrated Manual for the Use of the Terrestrial and Celestial Globes</i> (New York and Jersey City: H. Schedler, 1889).
label: Description
content: D. J. Warner, “The Geography of Heaven and Earth,” <i>Rittenhouse</i> 2 (1988): 125-127.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, Jersey City
topic: label: Subject
content: Geography
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Globes
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content: Measuring & Mapping
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1989.0743.438
label: accession number
content: 1989.0743
label: catalog number
content: 1989.0743.438
objectType: label: Object Name
content: globe, celestial
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 46 cm x 42.1 cm; 18 1/8 in x 16 9/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 18 1/8 in x 16 1/2 in; 46.0375 cm x 41.91 cm