Philips' Planisphere and Philips' Patent Orrery

Made:
1910-1915 in London
maker:
George Philip & Son

Philips' Planisphere and Philips' Patent Orrery, 10-inch models, by George Philip and Son London, c.1910. Printed paper on card with leather horizon aperture.

Philips' Planisphere

Philips' Planisphere

1910-1915
Philips' Patent Orrery

Philips' Patent Orrery

1910-1915

Details

Category:
Astronomy
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
1979-149
Materials:
paper and leather
type:
astronomical maps and planispheres
credit:
On loan from the Wellcome Trust

Related Objects

Film diapositive, 6 1/2"x9", of the Moon in the region of Copernicus. B. Lyot and M. Gentili, 60cm. Refractor at the Pic-du-Midi Observatory, 31st May 1944

Film diapositive
Photograph (silver print) showing the 3-foot Rosse Telescope with later equatorial mounting from the eastern side. Taken about 1880 by Lieutent-Colonel Harry J. Watson who was posted to nearby Newbridge.

Photograph showing the 3-foot Rosse Telescope
French lunar globe, 15cm (5 3/4-inch) diameter (1:23,000,000 scale) on ebonized wooden stand, late 19th century. The globe gores are printed by C.M. Gaudibert and Emile Beraux, Paris under the direction of Camille Flammarion a famous French populariser of science and astronomy during the 19th century. The usually blank part of the globe for the lunar farside lists 343 named craters and has the limits of the Moon's libration marked at the edge of the visible lunar surface.

French lunar globe
French Mars globe, 10 cm (4 1/4-inch) in diameter after Camille Flammarion, published by E. Bertaux and C. Flammarion, Paris on ebonised wooden stand c.1882

French Mars Globe

Film positive (9 7/8" x 7 3/4") Nebula N.G.C. 4594
Precessional celestial globe, 18-inch diameter with wooden stand by Charles Smith and Son Limited, London.

Precessional celestial globe