Celestial Globe
date: label: date made
content: 18th century
notes: label: Description
content: Celestial globe, unsigned but probably French, probably 18th century. A notable feature is the inclusion of the fourteen southern constellations that were devised by Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille (1713-1762), a French astronomer who worked at the Cape of Good Hope in the early 1750s, and that represent apparatus of the arts and science: Antlia pneumatica (air pump), Caelum (chisel), Circinus (drawing compass), Fornax (chemical furnace), Horologium (pendulum clock), Mensa (Table Mountain), Microscopium (microscope), Norma (carpenter’s square), Octanis (octant), Pictor (easel), Pyxis nautica (nautical compass), Reticulus rhomboidalis (reticulum), Apparatus Sculptoris (apparatus of a sculptor), and Telescopium (telescope).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France
label: associated place
content: United States: California, Los Angeles
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.328680
label: accession number
content: 272476
label: catalog number
content: 328680
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Globe, Celestial, French, 18th C
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, iron (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 81 cm; x 31 7/8 in