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1828 Stellarota |
Historic Maps Collection
Department of Rare Books and Special Collections
Princeton University Library
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1828 Stellarota |
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Famed London instrument makers, William (1763-1831) and Samuel (d. 1859)
Jones, worked at 135 Holborn from 1792 to
1800, and at 30 Holborn from 1800 to 1860.
The orrery demonstrates astronomical phenomena related to the diurnal rotation of the earth, the annual revolution of the earth around the sun, and monthly revolution of the moon around the earth, such as the reasons for day and night, seasons, and eclipses. The dial has calendar, zodiac names, symbols, and figures, and related calibrations in the outer concentric circles; tables of data relating to the planets (Mercury through Saturn) occupy the center area.
For detailed description and operation of the orrery, see the Princeton
University Library copy of:
Jones, William. The description and use of a new portable orrery
on a simple construction, representing the motions and phenomena of the
planetary system, but more particularly the motions of the earth and moon
round the sun ... to which is prefixed, a short account of the solar system,
or the true system of the world. London, Printed for, and sold by W.
and S. Jones, 1812. EX 8455.502.
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The text from the three corners is transcribed here:
For a complete description of the Stellarota and information about the roles played by the people and firms mentioned on it, see "An Early American Planisphere: Pettengill's Stellarota of 1828" by Ronald Smeltzer in Rittenhouse, Vol. 18, No. 2 (2004), pp. 31-39.
For Pettengill's related educational work, see View of the Heavens, or, Familiar Lessons on Astronomy (1826). MAP 2008-2478N.
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Globe 16 |
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This globe once belonged to Secretary of State John Foster Dulles.
Globe 1: "The terrestrial globe having twelve color-printed gores,
the equatorial graduated in degrees and hours, the equinoctial colure graduated
in degrees, the ecliptic graduated in days of the month and of the houses
of the Zodiac, the meridian of Greenwich ungraduated, a note referring
to numbers by the lines of latitude Length of a degree of longitude, shown
at each 10 degrees of latitude on meridian 30 w. and Spellings conform
to official rulings of United States Geographic Board and Royal Geographical
Society, the oceans with an analemma, warm and cold ocean currents, the
Sargasso Sea specially noted, notes on the seasonal changes to currents
in the Indian Ocean, and steamship routes (faint) with ports of arrival
and departure and distance in nautical miles, the continents with
nation states in yellow, some shaded slightly darker, with towns, cities,
rivers, deserts, railway lines and the Chinese wall, China showing Manchoukuo,
Germany shown as greatly expanded, the Antarctic with much projected coastline
and a note reading REACHED SO. POLE Amundsen 1911 Scott 1912 Byrd 1929,
the North Pole with a similar note reading REACHED NO. POLE Peary 1909
Byrd 1926 Amundsen 1926." --from internet description at GeorgeGlazer.com
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Globe #2 and Globe #3 are a pair.
(see #12 for a biographical sketch of Wilson)
Globe 2: "Tan engraved gores over plaster on metal orb, probably copper,
precision time arrow fastened to meridian at North Pole. Shows equinoctial
colure, ecliptic, prevailing winds, analemma and the routes of numerous
explorers. Stamped and machined brass full ring meridian in full mount
table stand with engraved colored horizon ring scale. Hawaii called Sandwich
Islands or Owyhee with notes on the death of Cook in 1779 and Hergest and
two others in 1792. New Holland or Australasia not yet divided into provinces.
In North America, Louisiana and Missouri are states but entire Northwest
called Missouri Territory and Southwest called Internal Provinces. Title
vignette and possibly the gores by D.W. Wilson and engraved by Balch, Rawdon
& Co."--from internet description at 1-World Globes.com
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Globe 2 and Globe 3 are a pair. See also 12, an earlier example of a James Wilson globe.
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Globe 4: "Coated embossed photolithographic gores over pasteboard.
Time dial at North Pole. Mounting with meridian and latitude scales on
two articulated chrome plated conforming steel ferrules on a round chromed
steel base.... Egypt only is U.A.R. Ocean floor and earth surface topographic
features." --from internet description at MurrayHudson.com
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Globe 6: "Plastic orb, lighted from within, covered with coated plastic
gores. Time dial at North Pole. Oceans finished in light blue varying with
the depth. Shows Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn and Equinoctial Colure."
--from internet description at MurrayHudson.com
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Globe 10: "The globe in the room, executed in Venice in 1631, is the
work of an unidentified, 17th-century painter who used as his source the
engraved maps of Willem Blaeu, the great map and globe-maker of the Netherlands.
A Latin inscription copies Blaeu's dedication to Maurice, Prince of Nassau,
a collateral ancestor of William III, Prince of Nassau-Orange, for whom
Princeton's Nassau Hall is named." --from framed label on the globe stand
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Globe 11: "Coated paper relief gores over pasteboard, time dial at
North Pole. Oceans finished in pale green with darker green accents showing
all physical features of the ocean floor. Notes locate all undersea slopes,
fractures, ridges, rises, gaps and sounding depths. Shows International
Date Line, tropics of Cancer and Capricorn and a few nautical distances.
Stamped steel goldtoned full ring meridian articulated to conforming ferule,
raised on turned wood shaft above bronzed conical base. Shows extensive
political features including the brief Central African Empire designation."
--from internet description at MurrayHudson.com
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Globes 2 and 3 are also James Wilson globes.
Globe 12: "In 1819, Wilson introduced his reduced 9" terrestrial globe, with a later edition issued in 1820. . . . For North America, the globe's geography seems to follow that of Melish's famous general map of the United States. The boundary between Spanish America and the United States is drawn according to the terms of the Adams-Onis Treaty (1819), and the globe was probably created and published in celebration of that event." --from the dealer's description
James Wilson (b. 1763). "Wilson was a native of New Hampshire
who spent his early adulthood as a farmer and blacksmith. In the latter
occupation he discovered he possessed considerable skill in the working
of hot metal. The mastery of metal-working, combined with a keen and inquisitive
intelligence must have been the inspiration for his desire to construct
globes. He studied the art of copper-engraving under Amos Doolittle, of
Connecticut, the famous early American engraver and printmaker, and mapmaking
under Jedidiah Morse, the 'Father of American Geography.' His first globe(terrestrial)
was dated 1811, measured 13 inches in diameter, and was THE FIRST GLOBE
PREPARED AND PUBLISHED IN THE UNITED STATES. Subsequent editions of Wilson's
13" terrestrial globe appeared in 1812, 1821, 1828, 1831, etc. A companion
13" celestial globe was introduced in 1812, which was also republished
several times."--from the dealer's description
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Globe 13: untitled cardboard folding globe (Omaha, Nebraska: K-B Printing Co.), consisting of two halves that join via vertical slits and, when unfolded at right angles, stand on the base that is formed, 10.5" high x 8" wide--used to advertise Paul A. Willsie Company, an academic costumer of Omaha, Nebraska.
Globe 14:
Gilman Joslin (1804-ca. 1886).
More information about Joslin and his globes can be found in: Joslin’s Terrestrial and Celestial Globes (Boston, Mass.: G. Joslin & Son, [1885?]). [MAP call 3?]
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Globe 15: Nicholas Lane (fl. 1775-1783) pocket globe: 1) terrestrial globe, “A New Globe of the Earth,” 1776 but updated after 1779 (Cook's death), 8.5 cm. diameter (in case), 7.0 cm. diameter sphere, 12 full gores from north to south equatorial poles, copperplate engraved, handcolored, mounted on two hemispheres of papier mâché, varnished, metal pivot at both poles; shows both Cook and Anson’s tracks, and “Owhyee / Here c. Cook was Kill’d.” 2) celestial globe, two concave hemispheres, serving as the case, made of wood covered with black embossed paper, joined at the equator by a brass hinge and two brass hook-and-eye fastenings, with two notches in the red painted rim; two sets of 12 half gores, clipped at a declination of 70°, with two polar calottes.
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Globe 16: Peter Salziger (?) pocket globe: handcolored and varnished lithographed terrestrial globe, [Nuremberg, 1st half of 19th century], with initials “M.P.S.”, 9.0 cm. diameter of cylindrical box, 8.0 diameter sphere, with track showing “Cooks Reise um die Welt” (Cook’s 3rd voyage); top of case lid bears handcolored vignette of a cartographer (Mercator?) with globe, callipers, and open atlas, ships in background.
 
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This most interesting Pack of Cards, of which only one Pack complete with the two Preliminary Cards is thought to exist, forms a small Atlas of England and Wales. As such, it is the first Atlas to indicate roads.The set is entered in the Terra Catalogue for Easter 1676 as: 'The 52 Countries (sic) of England and Wales, described in a pack of cards . . . Sold by Robert Morden at the Atlas in Cornhill, Will. Berry at the Globe in the Strand, Robert Green in Budge Row, and George Minikin at the King's Head in S. Martin's.'
The selection of the Counties for the Suits is described in the Preliminary Card, headed--'The Explanation of These Cards.' The Esqr. Ogilby, referred to, is the John Ogilby who in the previous year published his Britannia, which described the 100 Roads in Britain.
The King depicted on the cards is Charles II and the Queen, his wife, Catherine of Braganza. The main part of the cards was printed from engraved copper plates, with the suit marks being applied later by stencil.
The cards were clearly designed to give instruction to the young, rather than for serious play. There were other similar Instructional Packs of Cards published at about the same time covering, among other subjects, Astronomy, Geography, Heraldry and History.
A "Pic-Me-Up" puzzle, consisting of 100 interlocking pieces, forming an assembled size of 7.5" x 7.5". [Gift of Mrs. L. E. Spellman, 14 January 1974.]
