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Globe x-ray Long Caption: Celestial table globe. It forms a pair with the terrestrial globe, Doppelmayr GLB0075. Astronomical details on the sphere show a labelled magnitude table below Crater. The Milky Way is labelled. The Magellanic Clouds are depicted but not labelled. A total of 16 stars and four star groups are named. The 48 Ptolemaic constellations and four of the non-Ptolemaic constellations are drawn. In addition, three of the southern constellations are drawn, as well as those of Plancius and Hevelius. However, not all the constellations are labelled. Credit line: © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Caird Collection Object: GLB0076 Artist: Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr Date: 1730 Medium: plaster; papier mache; hand-coloured; copper plate engraved; ink; paper; brass; wood; varnish Size: 290 mm x 329 mm; sphere diameter: 198 mm Click here to buy a bespoke print of this image.