Antique Celestial Globe

A fine and rare 3" celestial pocket globe by G & W Cary, Strand, London circa 1791, housed in its original sharkskin case.

Celestial table globe Charles-François Delamarche Paris, 1791 It measures: 17.13 in in height, Ø max 27.7 in; the sphere Ø 7.09 in (h 43.5 cm x Ø max 27.7 cm; the sphere Ø 18 cm).

The rounded rectangular top inlaid with draped female figures emblematic of astronomy centered by a celestial globe, the angles with flower-heads flanked by scrolling foliage, the br...

He wrote extensively on astronomy, geography, cartography, spherical trigonometry, sundials and mathematical and other scientific instruments and was involved in the production of te...

He wrote extensively on astronomy, geography, cartography, spherical trigonometry, sundials and mathematical and other scientific instruments and was involved in the production of te...

In addition to his work on maps and atlases, Johannes Blaeu was also a skilled globemaker and his globes were much sought after. He produced both terrestrial and celestial globes and...

It was based on an earlier globe by Willem Blaeu. He made a "celestial globe" depicting the constellations in 1635, also based on Blaeu, who had used the data of Tycho Brahe.

He wrote extensively on astronomy, geography, cartography, spherical trigonometry, sundials and mathematical and other scientific instruments and was involved in the production of te...

She is studying the celestial globe set up in front of her. Behind her, half-rolled up, is the star chart.

It is dominated by a rectangular superstructure containing the movement, flanked by an engine-turned column with a celestial globe on top on the left and an elegant lady reading a bo...

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She plays the harp while seated on a celestial globe, placed beside a table covered with a Persian rug upon which rests an open music book, a symbol of her culture and artistic maste...

Beautiful and meticulously detailed etching with sober wooden frame; the paper work, "La Gloire de la France", was made by the famous French engraver Simon Thomassin (Troyes 1665-Par...

This depicts a slumbering woman, represented as an allegorical figure of philosophy, amidst the traditional attributes of a scholar’s study: a desk with a quill pen, a pile of books ...

The globe is mounted in a celestial meridian, on the holder we see the twelve signs of the zodiac.

The setting is a capriccio of objects related to the art and culture of the time, skilfully displayed, including a Persian carpet on the desk, a beautiful celestial globe on a pedest...

In 1886, at 17-19 rue de Buci, he founded his own publishing house for maps and plans, world maps, globes, terrestrial and celestial spheres, charts and wall maps for educational use.

In 1886, at 17-19 rue de Buci, he founded his own publishing house for maps and plans, world maps, globes, terrestrial and celestial spheres, charts and wall maps for educational use.

King Atlas was a mythical ruler of Mauritania, a mathematician and philosopher who supposedly made the first celestial globe. The term atlas has become the standard not only for a co...

The impressive finely chased mercury gilt ormolu body surmounted with two muses, a female figure representing Astronomy sits with a celestial globe, while on the right, Geography hol...

And enthroned above all this is Atlas, the Titan, holding the celestial globe. A very similar case, with a clockwork by Otto van Meurs, is described in Jan Zeeman - De Nederlandse S...

With his right arm, he leans on a celestial globe, which stands on a table covered in a red cloth.

The clock, crafted from gilt bronze and Carrara white marble, showcases a beautiful representation of cherubs holding the terrestrial globe, symbolizing celestial dominion over the e...

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