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Globe x-ray Long Caption: Celestial table globe. Astronomical details on the sphere include a labelled magnitude table in front of Ursa Major. The Milky Way is drawn but not labelled. There is extensive astrological information, and a total of 52 stars and six star groups are named. Stars and star groups are also provided with names in Greek script. The 48 Ptolemaic constellations are drawn with their Latin names and often their Greek names in Greek script as well. The constellations are copied from the definitive map made by Albrecht Durer (1471-1528) in 1515. The addition of a swimming maiden in Eridanus is probably copied from the 1536 celestial map of Petrus Apianus. Credit line: © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Caird Collection Object: GLB0135 Artist: Gemma Frisius; Gaspard van der Heyden; Gerard Mercator Date: 1537 Medium: papier mache; plaster; varnish; metal; wood; paper; paint; copper plate engraved; manuscript; hand-coloured; ink Size: 575 mm x 535 mm; sphere diameter: 370 mm Click here to buy a bespoke print of this image.