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Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

1797

Moon globe

c.1963

Orrery planetary model

1789-1795

Sixteen inch diameter globe of the Moon

1969-1972

Lunar globe

1987

Belgium Mars globe, 1892

1892

Lunar globe

1961-1964

Mars globe

1981-1982

Mars globe

1997

French lunar globe

1880-1899

Moon globe by John Russell, 1797

1797-1805

Lunar globe 100mm diameter on wooden stand by Replogle Globes Inc. Chicago. Compiled from Lunar Orbiter pictures

1981-1985

Mars Globe

1981-1982

Metal lunar globe with plastic stand

1969

Machine for dividing and ruling the brass meridian rings of globes &c

1755-1775

Venus globe, 12-inch diameter with plastic stand by Replogie Globes Inc., supplied through Sky Publishing Corporation. Colour coded relief details obtained from doppler radar measurements made using a spacecraft in orbit around the planet, Broadview, Chicago, Illinois, United States, 1995

Venus globe

1995

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

1880-1899

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

1882-1885

Globe of Mars, 15 cm (5 3/4-inch) in diameter by E.M. Antoniadi and Camille Flammarion, published by E. Bertaux, Paris on wooden stand (RAS No.135a), late 19th century. Presented to the Royal Astronomical Society after 1896 by E.M. Antoniadi.

French Mars globe, 1896-1899

1896-1899

Decorative display feature consisting of edge-illuminated perspex and a metal silhouette of an armillary, representing ancient astronomy.

Ancient Astronomy

1965

Plaster lunar globe, 2-foot in diameter, with three-legged mahogany frame. Shows the nearside of the Moon in relief. Modelled by John Russell, R.A. (1800-1806) for Sir Henry Charles Englefield. Later sold to Mr Stock of Poplar, London England.

Plaster lunar globe

1800-1806

Model of the Moon, 19 feet in diameter (half hemisphere), made by Thomas Dickert in Bonn and based on the lunar maps by Dr Julius Schmidt. Constructed at the University of Bonn in the mid 1850s, the model was later sold and sent to America before being acquired by the Field Museum in Chicago where it was displayed until the 1980s.

Model of the Moon

1850-1854