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| Categories » Globes, Planetaria and Clocks » A 3-inch Newton's pocket globe, England ca, 1820 |
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inscription in rectangular cartouche "Newton's new and improved terrestrial pocket globe No. 66 Chancery Lane London". Twelve printed and coloured gores, printed and coloured gores, printed in the South Pacific The improved Analemma is intend/ ed to supercede the necessity of the/ Eliptic Line hitherto unnecessarrarily/drawn upon the Terrestrial Globe/ Pub. Jan 1, 1817, the sphere mounted in brass meridian and slots into a paper horizon ring applied with printed compass points and degree scale, the fishskin-covered concave sphere applied on the upper half with a print of the heavens with depiction of the sun and four phases of the Earth together with zodiac scale 10cm diameter
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