Celestial Globe
name: label: maker
content: Cary & Co.
notes: label: Description
content: This globe shows no constellation figures or contours, but only the brightest stars used for navigation. It has a brass horizon and meridian ring designed by a Lieut. English, that are used to identify the stars. The inscriptions read "CARY & CO Makers to the Admiralty 7 PALL MALL LONDON" and "CARY, LONDON. PATENT No 21540." The wooden case is stamped with the name of the owner: "J DAVIES / I R N SIGNAL STATION / ST CATHERINES POINT / NITON UNDERCLIFF / N R VENTOR / IOW"
label: Description
content: John Cary began making globes in London in 1791. The firm became Cary & Co. in the early 1890s, and were at this Pall Mall address in the early 1900s.
label: Description
content: Ref: Elly Dekker, <i>Globes at Greenwich</i> (London, 1999), pp. 293-303.
label: Description
content: <i>English’s Patent Star Finder</i> (n.p., n.d.)
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Navigation
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content: Measuring & Mapping
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.327570
label: accession number
content: 267874
label: catalog number
content: 327570
objectType: label: Object Name
content: celestial globe
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: mahogany (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: felt (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 13.6 cm; 5 3/8 in
label: Measurements
content: overall in case: 8 1/4 in x 8 5/8 in x 8 3/4 in; 20.955 cm x 21.9075 cm x 22.225 cm