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Celestial facsimile globe. Sphere and stand Long Caption: Celestial facsimile globe. It forms a pair with terrestrial globe, van den Keere GLB0108. Astronomical details on the sphere include stars marked by various symbols, but there is no magnitude table. The Milky Way is drawn but not labelled. The Large Magellanic Cloud is labelled and the Small Cloud appears in a damaged area. In Aquarius, there is a reference to stars observed by Hevelius with a telescope. Credit line: Caird (formerly Mensing) Collection, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London Object: GLB0109 Artist: Vincenzo Coronelli Date: Original gores: 1696; Facsimile: circa 1900 Medium: papier mache; paper; brass; wood; plaster; hand-coloured Size: Overall: 465 x 453 mm; Sphere diameter: 322 mm Click here to buy a bespoke print of this image.