Globe and Accessories, c. 1700? | |||||||||||
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Object is on display. | |||||||||||
Inventory Number: | 22409 | ||||||||||
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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. | ||||||||||
Provenance: | Lent by Christ Church, Oxford in 1925. | ||||||||||
Collection Group: | Orrery Collection | ||||||||||
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