Globo Celeste 2. / Cassini, Giovanni Maria / 1792

Globo Celeste 2. Cassini, Giovanni Maria, 1792

Globo Celeste 2. / Cassini, Giovanni Maria / 1792

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Full Title: (Globo Celeste calcolato peril corrente anno sulle osservazioni de Sigg. Flamsteed e de la Caille. Roma : Calc(ografi)a Cam(era)le, 1792. Inciso dal P. Gio. Ma. Cassini, C.R.S.)

Author: Cassini, Giovanni Maria

Date: 1792

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Author: Cassini, Giovanni Maria

Date: 1792

Short Title: Globo Celeste 2.

Publisher: Rome: Calcographia Camerale.

Type: Globe gores

Object Height cm: 50

Object Width cm: 34

Scale 1: None shown

Note: Relief shown pictorially. Second of 4 sheets of gores to make up a globe. Includes legend "Grandezze delle Stelle." Features a particularly decorative projection of the heavens and is attractively colored, with the constellations shown in their classical forms. Appeared in the author's Nuovo atlante geografico universale delineate suelle ultime osservazioni, Roma : Presso la Calcografia Camerale, 1792-1801.

Reference: P670; Dekker, p. 66; Dahl & Gauvin, Sphaerae Mundi early globes at the Stewart Museum, p.131-134.

Subject: Celestial

Full Title: (Globo Celeste calcolato peril corrente anno sulle osservazioni de Sigg. Flamsteed e de la Caille. Roma : Calc(ografi)a Cam(era)le, 1792. Inciso dal P. Gio. Ma. Cassini, C.R.S.)

List No: 5750.002

Series No: 2

Published In: Globo Celeste calcolato peril corrente anno sulle osservazioni de Sigg. Flamsteed e de la Caille. Roma : Calc(ografi)a Cam(era)le, 1792. Inciso dal P. Gio. Ma. Cassini, C.R.S.

Publication Author: Cassini, Giovanni Maria

Publication Date: 1792

Publication Note: See note field above.

Publication List No: 5750.000

Publication Type: Globe gores

Publication Maps: 6

Publication Height cm: 59

Publication Width cm: 64

Image No: 5750002

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