Celestial Globe
date: label: date made
content: 1800
name: label: owner
content: Priestley, Joseph
label: maker
content: Bardin, William
label: maker
content: Bardin, Thomas Marriott
label: maker
content: W. & T. M. Bardin
notes: label: Description
content: This 18-inch celestial globe is supported on a wooden tri-leg pedestal, surrounded by a wooden horizon circle, and is equipped with a brass meridian and a small brass circle around the north pole. It (and its terrestrial mate) belonged to the Anglo-American chemist, Joseph Priestley.
label: Description
content: The text in the cartouche in the southern hemisphere reads: “To the Rev. / NEVIL MASKELYNE, D.D. F.R.S. / Astronomer Royal / The New British Celestial Globe / containing the Positions of nearly 6000 Stars, Clusters, nebulae, Planetary / Nebulae &c. Correctly computed & laid down to the year 1800; from the latest observati / ons and discoveries by Dr Maskelyne, Dr Herschel, The Revd Mr Wollaston &c. &c. / Is respectfully Dedicated / by his most obedient hbl Servants / W. & T. M. Bardin”
label: Description
content: William Bardin (fl. 1730-1798) was a London artisan who began making globes around 1780. Around 1790, now in partnership with his son, Thomas Marriott Bardin (1768-1819), he began trading as W. & T. M. Bardin. The 18-inch globes were their most ambitious. They were introduced in 1798, and remained in production, by successor firms, for a half century.
label: Description
content: Ref: John Millburn and Tör Rossaak, “The Bardin Family, Globe Makers in London” <i>Der Globusfreund</i> (1992).
label: Description
content: Elly Dekker, <i>Globes at Greenwich</i> (Oxford, 1999), pp. 260-270.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
label: associated place
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Williamsport
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: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Mrs. Eliza R. Lyon
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.53254
label: accession number
content: 27050
label: catalog number
content: 53254
objectType: label: Object Name
content: celestial globe
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: average spatial: 45.5 cm; 17 29/32 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 34 in x 34 in x 52 in; 86.36 cm x 86.36 cm x 132.08 cm