Inventory no. 25400 - Former Display Label
English GLOBE
c.1700
Brass and silvered brass. Signed, "I Rowley Fecit".; undated.
This globe shows the Poles, the Tropics, the Ecliptic, the Equator and the Meridian, together with lines of longitude marked with hours, and certain altitude circles between the Tropics. Altitudes can be measured on the globe by means of a moveable arc graduated from 0° to 90°, and degrees of longitude can be measured by means of the silvered scale on the stand.
[Orrery Collection, no. 10]
Lent by Christ Church.
Other narratives:
- A globe for instruction and calculation
- Orrery Collection: 1731 Inventory
- Orrery Collection in print
- Accession Record : Extract from Annual Report for 1925
- Former Display Label - The Orrery Collection of Scientific Instruments
- Former Display Label - The Principal Makers of Instruments in the Orrery Collection