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	Globe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The earliest globe, called the "Nürnberg Terrestrial Globe", was made during the years 1490-1492 by German mapmaker Martin Behaim.
		A globe is usually mounted at an angle on bearings.
		Sometimes a globe has relief, showing topography; in the case of a globe of the Earth the elevations are exaggerated, otherwise they would be hardly visible.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Globe (390 words)

	Cosmic Globes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This celestial globe, made by Willem Blaeu in Amsterdam around 1603, is typical of the type of globe first produced in large numbers at the start of the seventeenth century.
		By the nineteenth century celestial globes had become much less decorative and greater emphasis was placed on their use as teaching aids.
		Globes of this type were now to be found in the classrooms of schools and colleges, rather than just in the homes of the wealthy.
	www.sciencemuseum.org.uk /on-line/globes/celestial1.asp?showinfo=no (457 words)

	Armillary sphere - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An armillary sphere (also known as a spherical astrolabe, armilla, or armil) is a model of the celestial sphere, invented by Eratosthenes in 255 BC.
		The earliest celestial globe was dated back to 52 BC in the West Han dynasty by the astronomers Geng Shou-chang (耿壽昌) and Luo-xia Hong (落下閎).
		The first water powered celestial globe was created by Zhang Heng in the East Han dynasty.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Celestial_globe (360 words)

	AllRefer.com - globe (Maps And Mapping) - Encyclopedia
		globe, spherical map of the earth (terrestrial globe) or the sky (celestial globe).
		Probably the earliest globe was constructed by the Greek geographer Crates of Mallus in the 2d cent.
		A celestial globe is a model of the celestial sphere intended primarily to show the positions of the stars.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/G/globe.html (274 words)

	The Celestial Globe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Celestial globes were used to represent the stars and constellations of the night sky and record their positions with respect to each other and a co-ordinate system.
		In the most common form of celestial globe, a number of stars were marked on a sphere, and the constellation figures delineated.
		The sphere was mounted by its poles (corresponding to the celestial poles) on a metal circle, or meridian.
	www.hps.cam.ac.uk /starry/celglobe.html (276 words)

	Lanman Globe Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This globe was the corresponding celestial globe to the above terrestrial globe.
		This New Celestial Globe Containing all ye Southern Constellations lately observed at the Cape of Good Hope and all the Stars in Flamstead's British Catalogue is most humbly inscribed by His Majesty's most dutifull and oblidged Subject and Servant G. Adams.
		Some of these pocket globes were as small as 5 cm in diameter, and while some were either mounted on stands like conventional globes, others were enclosed in special cases to make them more portable, as this one was.
	www.library.yale.edu /MapColl/globes.html (1422 words)

	Galerie J. Kugel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The astronomer’s celestial globe is an instrument upon which, by means of longitudinal and latitudinal coordinates, the user marks on a sphere the stars he observes or discovers.
		On this sphere are indicated the principle circles of coordinates, viz.: the colures of the equinoxes and solstices passing through the polar axis and, perpendicular to these, the equator, the tropics and the polar circles; finally, the ecliptic circle, tangential to the tropics and inclined by about 23 1/2º with respect to the equator.
		He states that a well-made globe must show the stars in yellow and red against a dark background and that stars of the same constellation must be connected together by lines and not incorporated into a figure which hindered calculation.
	www.galerie-kugel.com /c/c_en.htm (1078 words)

	Globi Neerlandici
		The celestial globe served as an aid to astronomy, the terrestrial globe as a demonstration of mathematico-geographical hypotheses.
		Celestial globes are not mentioned in connection with sailing during this period, but they aroused much interest in the astronomical world.
		Celestial globes served as an aid in learning to recognize the movement of the heavens and the constellations, and as such were used in teaching astronomy.
	home.tiscali.nl /~ac43940/kaart/globi.htm (4651 words)

	Heritage Antique Map Sales, Auctions, and Museum - Past Auction Highlights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Case interior laid with two sets of twelve celestial hand colored gore, the equatorial and colures graduated in degrees, the ecliptic graduated in days of the houses of the Zodiac with sigil, the constellations depicted by mythical beasts and figures.
		Globe is possibly made by George Adams Jnr (1750-1795, re-engraved from the plates of Herman Moll's pocket globe of 1710, from the stock of John Senex which Adams had acquired on the latter's death in 1755.
		Cary's New Celestial Globe, on which are correctly laid down upwards of 35,000 stars Selected from the most accurate observations and calculated for the year 1800, with the extent of each Constellation precisely defined.
	www.carto.com /chighlights/globes.html (1597 words)

	inQuiry Attic - November, 1999
		The concept behind it is that the globe is a sphere that shows the Earth as its imaginary center on which the stars, constellations, and various astronomical circles are drawn.
		There were a few problems with this type of globe, however; for example, it depicts the figures of the constellations facing outward, toward the user, rather than inward, toward the center of the globe.
		Thus, the globe is the earliest known in existence of the optical planetarium.
	sln.fi.edu /qa99/attic11/attic11.html (604 words)

	NG London/Collection Features/The Art of Science/Celestial Globe
		The ancient Greeks believed that the stars were fixed to a transparent crystal sphere known as the celestial globe, or starry vault, which encircled the Earth.
		Celestial globes, like the one shown here, were made to represent the locations of the heavenly bodies, the sun, the moon and the stars in the celestial sphere, and to show their motions.
		The celestial globe would have been an important piece of equipment for an astronomer when this picture was painted in the 17th century.
	www.nationalgallery.org.uk /collection/features/science/globe.htm (181 words)

	HOMEWORK 1
		There is a large Celestial Globe in the hallway on the third floor of the Physics-Astronomy building which you should use for this homework.
		The Celestial Equator is the extension of the Earth's equator to the celestial sphere.
		Now rotate the celestial globe, again holding the Sun at 2 September and Polaris at 42 deg above the horizon, until the Sun is level with the horizon ring in the west; the globe now represents the position of the sky at sunset.
	www.pa.msu.edu /~steinr/isp205.s99/sky.hw1.ans.html (811 words)

	Coins Astronomy
		It is hard to imagine the power celestial events had on the ancients until you delve into their literature.
		This, of course, is impossible as the moon is the closest celestial object to Earth.
		It makes sense that celestial events that were both spectacular and related to the ancient people's cosmology and religion would find their way onto coins.
	tjbuggey.ancients.info /astro.html (4549 words)

	Ouranion Mimema [Kugel Globe] - © Dr Shepherd Simpson
		This lies between the front legs of Aries [whereas on the Mainz Globe it is depicted as lying between Aries and Pisces].
		The remaining two are the marble globe of the Farnese Atlas, in the National Museum of Naples [1st or 2nd century AD], and a Small Brass Globe recently acquired by the Roman-Germanic Museum in Mainz [c 150 - 220 AD].
		The globe is far from respecting the astronomical norms of the period as defined by Hipparcus, although the position of the constellations in relation to the main astronomical circles is not arbitrary.
	www.geocities.com /astrologysources/classicalgreece/kugelglobe (1426 words)

	Celestial globe -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Throughout (Any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China; regarded as dialects of a single language (even though they are mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic writing system) Chinese history, (A physicist who studies astronomy) astronomers have created celestial globes to assist the observation of the stars.
		The earliest celestial globe was dated back to (Click link for more info and facts about 52) 52 BC in the West Han dynasty by the astronomers Geng Shou-chang (耿壽昌) and Luo-xia Hong (落下閎).
		The first water powered celestial globe was created by (Click link for more info and facts about Zhang Heng) Zhang Heng in the (Click link for more info and facts about East Han) East Han dynasty.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ce/celestial_globe.htm (277 words)

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		Unlike most existing copies of Coronelli's globe gores that were intended for reference, this set of celestial gores designed by Deuvez and engraved by Nolin is a possibly unique example that was clearly to be used for mounting on to an actual globe, as the numerous manuscript notations attest.
		These globes were produced in part as replicas of the gigantic and unique 15 foot-diameter pair of globes that Coronelli constructed and presented to Louis XIV, the King of France, in 1683, and which secured his fame as Europe's premier globe maker.
		The 3 ½ foot celestial globe was one of the crowning glories of Coronelli's output and was also the grandest celestial globe of the 17th century.
	martayanlan.com /cgi-bin/searchresults.cgi?item=4& (534 words)

	Title (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Even though a celestial globe is intended to show how we perceive the sky as if the earth were inside, we look at the celestial globe from the outside of it, as if from some imaginary point beyond the cosmos.
		For this reason, on celestial globes, the constellation figures are reversed and they are rendered artistically as if we are viewing the from their back (far side).
		The twelve paper gores applied to the globe are printed after originals drawn by Gerardus Mercator, the inventory of the Mercator projection, which was used from the 16th till the middle of the 20th century.
	www.egodeath.com /ptolemaiccosmology.htm (2639 words)

	Maths Museum - Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Globes which are maps of the earth, like the ones you see in geography classrooms, are now much more popular than star globes.
		Two or three hundred years ago it was very common for people to have two globes: one celestial globe and one globe of the earth (called a terrestrial globe).
		This globe was probably used for both astronomy and astrology, either by a sultan, or by an important mathematical teacher in a caliph's palace, or by a priest in a large mosque.
	www.mathsyear2000.org /museum/floor2/gallery5/gal3p7.html (624 words)

	Gifts to the Nation
		The celestial globe has the longest and most ancient history of any of the forms of celestial mapping.
		While most globes of this time are hollow and/or made of plaster, on this unusual globe the celestial information is delicately painted on a solid wooden sphere.
		Of the known Islamic globes in the United States, none are wooden globes.
	www.loc.gov /bicentennial/gifts/gift230.html (106 words)

	History of Constellation and Star Names
		The north polar region of the celestial globe has some damage (i.e., there is a hole in the top of the globe) and so the constellations Ursa Major and Ursa Minor are missing.
		The interpretation of this dating is the celestial globe is probably a decorative attempt to depict the constellation figures described (circa 275 BCE) by Aratus in his astronomical poem Phainomena.
		The Farnese Globe is the largest of the celestial globes surviving from Classical antiquity.
	members.optusnet.com.au /~gtosiris/page11-8a.html (1282 words)

	Landmark Globes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Restored and wonderful to see, the globes are on display at the collection, in Pusey Library, or may be examined and virtually twirled at http://hcl.harvard.edu/mercatorglobes.
		Each Mercator globe is hollow, made of papier-mâché molded around a wooden sphere, cut from the form along the equator, reassembled, and coated with thin layers of plaster.
		His celestial globe was based on Ptolemy's star system but also recognized recent findings by Copernicus.
	www.harvard-magazine.com /on-line/030517.html (455 words)

	Beijing Ancient Observatory
		This shows the celestial globe, which was made in 1673 (Qing Dynasty).
		This picture of the celestial globe was copied from the brochure given to visitors as they enter the observatory.
		The celestial globe was one of my favorite things in the observatory, so here's yet another picture of it from a postcard.
	antoine.frostburg.edu /phys/luzader/cac/beijing/beijing.html (851 words)

	Newton Berry Celestial Globe Armagh Observatory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Celestial Globe by W. Newton, Son and Berry
		Celestial Globe on stand by W. Newton, Son & Berry.
		The inscription reads: Newton's new and improved Celestial Globe, on which all the Stars are taken from the elaborate and most improved Catalogue of Piazzi, the Nebulas from Bode and the Double Stars and those with proper motions from South.
	star.arm.ac.uk /history/instruments/Newton-Berry-celestial-globe.html (86 words)

	Sphæra issue no. 10: article 6
		A 12-inch celestial globe of 1738 by John Senex has been the latest to benefit from the programme of restoration of globes originally announced in the first issue of Sphæra.
		John Senex was an engraver and a map and globe seller active in London throughout most of the first half of the eighteenth century.
		It seems that John constructed the globes as well as engraving the plates for their printed gores, for when Mary sold up in 1755, James Ferguson announced that he had acquired 'the Plates, Moulds, &c.
	www.mhs.ox.ac.uk /sphaera/issue10/articl6.htm (434 words)

	Celestial globe - 2 THE CELESTIAL GLOBE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Celestial globes, like the one shown here, were made to represent the The celestial globe would have been an important piece of equipment for an
		Celestial and terrestrial globes (from "Catalogo del Museo della Specola di Bologna" of E. Baiada, F. Bandogravenoli, A. Braccesi)
		The only large celestial globe evidently surviving from antiquity is that in the Naples Archaeological Museum, held upon the shoulders of the statue of
	linksessions.com /q/celestial-globe.htm (200 words)

	Science First - Celestial Globe, 16"
		All of the stars are printed on the inside of the globe so that your eyes are drawn to the yellow dots (representing the stars) on the far side of the globe.
		The blue horizon ring is large enough and close enough to the celestial sphere to assist in delineating the area of the star field that can be seen from any location on the earth on any date and any time.
		The Explorer Celestial Globe is not only highly educational, but also an attractive display piece for any home or office.
	www.sciencefirst.com /vw_prdct_mdl.asp?prdct_mdl_cd=CG616 (268 words)

	Alice's Globe
		However, before Shakespeare's Globe was even conceived, I realised that there was the possibility of making a celestial globe based on Lewis Carroll's classic two books featuring Alice and the strange characters that she encounters when in Wonderland or journeying through the Looking Glass.
		Curiouser still, because of this reversion, celestial globes are published depicting the stars in reverse, enabling the celestial globe to be used in conjunction with the telescope eliminating confusion.
		We next removed the celestial images, leaving the equatorial (graduated in degrees, hours and minutes), the ecliptic (graduated in days of the month and the houses of the Zodiac), the stars depicted to nine orders of magnitude with nebulae, labelled with numbers corresponding to the astronomer's catalogue of their source.
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /greavesandthomas/facsimile/globe_alice.html (5573 words)

	Robert Frew - Cartography, celestial, solar system, stars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The celestial globe features a particularly decorative projection of the heavens and is attractively coloured, with the constellations shown in their classical forms.
		Pair of attractive engravings of celestial planispheres with the constellations shown in their allegorical guises.
		The set comprises engravings of a projection of the universe, an illustration of spheres, an illustration describing the locations of the diverse populations of the world and two planispheres (celestial projections from the northern and southern hemispheres).
	www.robertfrew.com /maps/celestial.htm (549 words)

	Sky Maps and Globes
		The Arabian celestial globe of 1279 is one of the five oldest Islamic globes known.
		Designed by Johannes Reinhold and Georg Roll of Augsburg, the globe clock was made of brass and copper covered with gold leaf.
		The heraldic celestial globe is 59cm high with a diamer to 27.5 cm, and is made of brass covered with copper foil.
	sio.midco.net /dansmapstamps/heavens.htm (223 words)

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