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Globe and Accessories, c. 1700?
Object is on display.
Inventory Number:	22409
Object Type:
Accession Number:	1925-43
Brief Description:	Globe and accessories of unknown origin. Ivory and brass. Unsigned and undated; c.1700?. The assembly shown is perhaps not correct. The components are: 1. An ivory globe, marked with lines indicating the Poles, Equator, Tropics, Ecliptic and lines of longitude, on a hollow brass tube or stem. This globe is of the type used in orreries and may be a 'spare'. The brass projections on its surface were perhaps to demonstrate the lengthening of shadows cast by the Sun as distance from the Equator increases. 2. An ivory stand with a vertical brass pin, tapped with a screw-thread at the top. Underneath the base is written: "a planet set down any were". 3. A tapped sleeve-piece which screws on no. 2 (above), to which are fixed two wires each carrying an ivory 'planet'. 4. A 'spare' planet which can also slide onto the pin of no. 2 (above) but which may belong to an orrery.
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Provenance:	Lent by Christ Church, Oxford in 1925.
Collection Group:	Orrery Collection
Dimensions:	Height Width Depth Diameter Unit 35 mm
Narratives Instruments added to the Orrery Collection Inventory no. 22409 - Former Display Label Former Display Label - The Orrery Collection of Scientific Instruments Former Display Label - The Principal Makers of Instruments in the Orrery Collection Orrery Collection: 1731 Inventory Accession Record : Extract from Annual Report for 1925 Orrery Collection in print

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