French lunar globe
- maker:
- Casimir Maria Gaudibert
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French lunar globe, 15cm (5 3/4-inch) diameter (1:23,000
Science Museum Group
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Science Museum Group
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
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© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
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© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
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© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
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© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
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© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
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© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
French lunar globe, 15cm (5 3/4-inch) diameter (1:23,000
Science Museum Group
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
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.
Details
- Category:
- Astronomy
- Object Number:
- 2001-319
- Materials:
- paper (fibre product), wood (unidentified), brass (copper, zinc alloy) and plaster
- Measurements:
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overall: 295 mm 155 mm, .425kg
- type:
- globes (cartographic spheres), moon globes and lunar globes
- credit:
- Christie's South Kensington Limited
