Tellurian
date: label: date made
content: ca 1876
name: label: maker
content: Satyo, Ltd.
notes: label: Description
content: This is a simple instrument on a round wooden base. A horizontal arm connects a lamp representing the Sun with the Earth and its Moon. The Japanese text on the Earth has been translated as: “Made Dec. 1875 / Government Permitted / Translated by Ida / Issued by Tokyo / Satyo, Ltd. / Original from England Michel.”
label: Description
content: This astronomical device represents the intense effort to emulate western educational practices that Japanese leaders mounted following the Meiji restoration of 1868. It was probably one of the many objects that the Japanese Empire Department of Education sent to Philadelphia for the Centennial Exhibition of 1876. It then went to the U.S. Bureau of Education, and that organization transferred it to the Smithsonian in 1910.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Japan: Tōkyō, Tokyo
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: Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.261260
label: accession number
content: 51116
label: catalog number
content: 261260
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Tellurian
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 in x 6 in; 33.02 cm x 15.24 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 1/8 in x 17 7/8 in x 6 1/2 in; 33.3375 cm x 45.4025 cm x 16.51 cm