French lunar globe

Made:
1880-1899 in Paris
maker:
Casimir Maria Gaudibert
author:
Camille Flammarion
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Brass drum orrery on claw foot stand showing seven planets out
Science Museum Group
© 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

Brass drum orrery on claw foot stand showing seven planets out
Science Museum Group
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Brass drum orrery on claw foot stand showing seven planets out
Science Museum Group
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Brass drum orrery on claw foot stand showing seven planets out
Science Museum Group
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Brass drum orrery on claw foot stand showing seven planets out
Science Museum Group
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Brass drum orrery on claw foot stand showing seven planets out
Science Museum Group
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Brass drum orrery on claw foot stand showing seven planets out
Science Museum Group
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Brass drum orrery on claw foot stand showing seven planets out
Science Museum Group
© 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:
overall: 295 mm 155 mm, .425kg
type:
globes (cartographic spheres), moon globes and lunar globes
credit:
Christie's South Kensington Limited