- Bib ID:
- 5755460
- Format:
- Map
- Author:
- Cary, John, approximately 1754-1835
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Scale:
- Scale [ca. 1:25,000,000] (W 180⁰00'--E 180⁰00'/N 90⁰00'--S 90⁰00').
- Description:
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- London : Made & sold by J. & W. Cary, Strand, 1825
- 1 globe : col., mounted on a mahogany tripod stand with a brass meridian ring ; 53 cm. in diameter.
- Notes:
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- Terrestrial globe showing important exploratory voyages of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Relief shown by hachures.
- "March 1st 1815."
- "With additions and corrections to 1825."
- The Australian mainland is named 'Australia' and this is the first globe published to adopt the name after its approval by the British government in 1824.
- The place of Captain Cook's death is marked on the globe.
- Globe constructed over a wooden frame, covered with papier mache and coated with plaster to provide smooth finish to paper gore. Paper gore hand coloured.
- Mounted in a three-legged mahogany stand with magnetic compass. Four wooden arms support a wooden horizontal ring showing months of the year and signs of the zodiac.
- Includes a scale of time and a table of equation showing the difference of time between the clock and the sun - also the declination of the sun for every day in the year.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-230036034
- Subject:
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- Time Coverage:
- 1815-1825
- Other authors/contributors:
- Cary, William, 1759-1825
- Also Titled:
- New terrestrial globe
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Artistic
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1835
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1825
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