Celestial Globe
date: label: date made
content: 1826
name: label: maker
content: Wilson, J & Sons
notes: label: Description
content: 13-inch globe supported on a 4-leg wooden base, and provided with a wooden horizon circle and a brass meridian. The inscription reads: “A NEW / AMERICAN / CELESTIAL GLOBE / Containing the positions of nearly 5000 / Stars, Clusters, Nebulae & Carefully compil’d / & laid down from the latest & most approv’d / astronomical tables reduced to the present / time / By J. WILSON & SONS, / 1826. / ALBANY ST N.Y.”
label: Description
content: James Wilson (1763-1855) was America’s first commercial globe maker. Although he was self-taught in geography and the techniques of engraving, his globes were accurate, beautiful, and a commercial success. Wilson made his first globes in Vermont around 1810. Working with his sons he established an “artificial globe manufactory” in Albany in 1818.
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
label: associated place
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Haverford
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: Haverford College
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.337012
label: accession number
content: 1979.0203
label: catalog number
content: 337012
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Celestial Globe
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cherry (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 32.5 cm; 12 25/32 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 18 1/8 in x 18 in; 46.0375 cm x 45.72 cm