Cary 12-Inch Celestial Globe
date: label: date made
content: 1816
notes: label: Description
content: The cartouche reads “CARY’S / NEW / CELESTIAL GLOBE, / 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 Mr. GILPIN of the ROYAL SOCIETY. / Made and Sold by J. & W. CARY. / Strand London Jan. 1 1816.”
label: Description
content: The globe is held on a wooden pedestal with three curved legs. It has a wooden horizon circle and a brass meridian.
label: Description
content: John Cary was a globe maker in London who began in business in 1791. For this globe (and a few other things) he worked with his brother William. George Gilpin worked as an assistant at the Royal Observatory at Greenwich for a couple of years, and as the clerk of the Royal Society of London from 1785 until his death in 1810.
label: Description
content: Cary introduced his new 12-inch celestial globe and the terrestrial mate in 1798. This example is dated 1816.
label: Description
content: Ref: Herbert George Fordham, <i>John Cary: Engraver, Map, Chart and Print-Seller and Globe-Maker, 1754 to 1835</i> (Cambridge, 1925)
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
topic: label: Subject
content: Astronomy
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Globes
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content: Measuring & Mapping
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Elsie Howland Quinby
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.392869A
label: catalog number
content: 392869A
label: accession number
content: 214358
objectType: label: Object Name
content: globe, celestial
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: mahogany (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 in; 30.48 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 24 1/2 in x 16 1/2 in; 62.23 cm x 41.91 cm