Wilson 13-inch Celestial Globe
date: label: date made
content: 1835
name: label: associated person
content: Wilson, James
label: maker
content: Lancaster, Cyrus
notes: label: Description
content: “WILSON’S / NEW THIRTEEN INCH / CELESTIAL GLOBE / Containing the positions of nearly 7000 / Stars, Clusters, Nebulae & Carefully compil’d / & laid down from the latest & most approv’d / astronomical tables reduced to the present / time / By C. LANCASTER / 1835 / ALBANY ST N.Y.”
label: Description
content: This globe has a 4-leg wooden base, a wooden horizon circle and a brass meridian.
label: Description
content: James Wilson (1763-1855) was America’s first commercial globe maker. He was self-taught in geography and the techniques of engraving, but his globes were accurate, beautiful, and a commercial success. He made his first globes in Vermont around 1810 and established an “artificial globe manufactory” in Albany in 1818. Cyrus Lancaster joined the firm in 1826, took charge of the business after the death of Wilson’s sons in 1833, and introduced this version of the 13-inch celestial globe soon thereafter.
label: Description
content: Ref: D. J. Warner, “The Geography of Heaven and Earth,” <i>Rittenhouse</i> 2 (1988): 135-137.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Albany
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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.326969
label: accession number
content: 263804
label: catalog number
content: 326969
objectType: label: Object Name
content: globe, celestial
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 18 1/2 in x 18 in; 46.99 cm x 45.72 cm