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Sphere and stand Long Caption: Celestial table globe. It forms a pair with the terrestrial globe, Blaeu GLB0100. Astronomical details on the sphere show a magnitude table, above Dorado, in a cartouche. The Milky Way and the Magellanic Clouds are labelled. There is a precession table in a cartouche followed by a table and an explanation. A total of 51 stars and ten groups are named. The 48 Ptolemaic constellations and four of the non-Ptolemaic constellations are drawn, and the 12 southern constellations of Plancius are also drawn. Credit line: Caird (formerly Mensing) Collection, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London Object: GLB0101 Artist: Willem Jansz Blaeu Date: Gores produced: 1603; Plates altered: after 1621 Medium: papier mache; plaster; copper plate engraved; varnish; brass; wood; paper; hand-coloured; stamped Size: Overall: 520 x 470 mm; Sphere diameter: 340 mm Click here to buy a bespoke print of this image.