Cartouche below Cetus

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Cartouche below Cetus Long Caption: Celestial table globe. It forms a pair with the terrestrial globe, Coronelli GLB0124. 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: © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Caird Collection Object: GLB0125 Artist: Vincenzo Coronelli Date: 1696 Medium: wood; hand-coloured; varnish; brass; plaster; paper; manuscript; ink; copper plate engraved Size: 622 mm x 641 mm; sphere diameter: 478 mm Click here to buy a bespoke print of this image.