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Sphere and stand Long Caption: Celestial table globe. It forms a pair with the terrestrial globe, Bardin and Wright GLB0169. Astronomical details on the spehre include a magnitude table along the tropic of Capricorn. The stars are marked by their Bayer notation, and the Milky Way is labelled. A total of 36 stars and four star groups are named. There is an illegible star name in Cancer. The 48 Ptolemaic constellations and four of the non-Ptolemaic constellations are drawn. Five of the southern constellations are drawn, as well as those of Plancius and all those of Hevelius which are drawn in dotted contours. Noteworthy of the style of the constellations drawn is a goat on the shoulder of Auriga accompanied by kids. Credit line: © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London Object: GLB0168 Artist: William Bardin; Gabriel Wright Date: 1785 Medium: papier mache; paper; brass; wood; plaster; varnish; copper plate engraved; ink Size: 345 mm x 322 mm; sphere diameter: 230 mm Click here to buy a bespoke print of this image.