Cary's new terrestrial globe [cartographic material] : delineated from the best authorities extant ; exhibiting the different tracks of Captain Cook, and the new discoveries made by him and other circumnavigators
- Bib ID:
- 5755463
- Format:
- Map
- Author:
- Cary, John, approximately 1754-1835
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Scale:
- Scale [ca. 1:40,000,000] (W 180⁰00'--E 180⁰00'/N 90⁰00'--S 90⁰00').
- Description:
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- London : Made and sold by J. & W. Cary, Strand Jany. 1st, 1800
- 1 globe : col., mounted on mahogany tripod stand with brass meridian ring ; 30.8 cm. in diam.
- Notes:
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- Terrestrial globe showing Captain Cook's world voyages and information from exploratory voyages of the late 18th century. Australia is shown as New Holland. Relief shown by hachures.
- Also shows the voyages of Captain George Vancouver and Admiral Jean-Francois de La Perouse.
- The place of Captain Cook's death is marked on the face of the globe.
- Globe constructed over a wooden frame, covered with papier mache and coated with plaster to provide smooth finish to paper gores. Paper gores hand coloured.
- Mounted in a three-legged mahogany stand with magnetic compass. Four wooden arms support a brass meridian ring and a wooden horizontal circle engraved with a calendar scale 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-230038073
- Subject:
- Time Coverage:
- 1800
- 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
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- Material type:
- Artistic
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1835
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1800
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