Ferguson 3-Inch Terrestrial Globe
date: label: date made
content: 1756-1757
name: label: maker
content: Ferguson, James
notes: label: Description
content: A cartouche in the North Pacific of this pocket globe reads “A New / GLOBE of the / Earth / by James Ferguson.” A broken line shows the route taken by George Anson during his 1740-1744 global circumnavigation. The Antipodes to London is shown, as are the Chinese Wall and monsoons in the Indian Sea. California appears as a peninsula. The globe is provided with a case made of dogfish skin, with an inverted celestial globe on the inside.
label: Description
content: James Ferguson was an astronomical and philosophical lecturer and instrument maker who hailed from Scotland and settled in London. He introduced this globe circa 1756, and transferred his globe business to Benjamin Martin the following year.
label: Description
content: Ref: John R. Millburn, <i>Wheelwright of the Heavens. The Life and Work of James Ferguson</i> (London, 1988).
label: Description
content: Elly Dekker, <i>Globes at Greenwich</i> (Oxford, 1999), pp. 332-333.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
label: associated place
content: United States: Maine, Camden
topic: label: Subject
content: Geography
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.318287
label: catalog number
content: 318287
label: accession number
content: 233574
objectType: label: Object Name
content: globe
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: skin, dogfish (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 7 cm; 2 3/4 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: case, open: 1 1/2 in x 6 3/8 in x 3 3/16 in; 3.81 cm x 16.1925 cm x 8.09625 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: globe: 2 3/4 in; 6.985 cm