Terrestrial table globe
(This weight in this globe is possibly made of LEAD) Terrestrial table globe. It forms a pair with the celestial globe, Senex GLB0139. Geographical details on the sphere include loxodromes drawn for 32 compass points. The monsoons are indicated and trade winds are depicted by arrows between the parallels. Around the North Pole is the label, 'TERRA ARCTICA INCOGNITA'. California is drawn as a peninsula and a hypothetical Antarctic continent is absent. There are 22 notes on discoveries, for example South Africa, below the Cape of Good Hope, North of Australia and in South America, below Cape Horn.
Anson's track is added in manuscript, 'Lord Anson's Voyage to the South'. Eight oceans are named. Anson's track, added in manuscript on the present example, may be significant since the original owner, Lord Hardwicke, who was Lord Chancellor of England, was Anson's father-in-law through Anson's marriage to his elder daughter, Lady Elizabeth Yorke, in 1748. From a mechanical point of view, this is a very well-made globe. The superior craftsmanship of Senex is also clear. The use of Latin on an English globe is rather unusual and could indicate that Senex intended his 680 mm (27 in) globes for the learned world, such as for professors in astronomy and geography. Many of the texts relate to those of Price GLB0154. For full details about the cartography and construction of this globe please refer to the related publication.
Formerly the property of the first Earl of Hardwicke, Phillip Yorke, one of the authors of the 1729 Yorke-Talbot opinion which sanctioned slavery within English law.
Anson's track is added in manuscript, 'Lord Anson's Voyage to the South'. Eight oceans are named. Anson's track, added in manuscript on the present example, may be significant since the original owner, Lord Hardwicke, who was Lord Chancellor of England, was Anson's father-in-law through Anson's marriage to his elder daughter, Lady Elizabeth Yorke, in 1748. From a mechanical point of view, this is a very well-made globe. The superior craftsmanship of Senex is also clear. The use of Latin on an English globe is rather unusual and could indicate that Senex intended his 680 mm (27 in) globes for the learned world, such as for professors in astronomy and geography. Many of the texts relate to those of Price GLB0154. For full details about the cartography and construction of this globe please refer to the related publication.
Formerly the property of the first Earl of Hardwicke, Phillip Yorke, one of the authors of the 1729 Yorke-Talbot opinion which sanctioned slavery within English law.
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Object Details
ID: | GLB0138 |
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Collection: | Astronomical and navigational instruments; Charts and maps |
Type: | Table globe |
Display location: | Display - Pacific Encounters Gallery |
Creator: | Senex, John |
Date made: | circa 1730 |
People: | Columbus, Christopher; Dampier, William Davies, John Hudson, Henry Magellan, Ferdinand Nuyts, Peter Witt, Gerrit Frederiksz de |
Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Caird Collection |
Measurements: | Overall: 930 x 880 mm; Diameter of sphere: 680 mm |
Parts: | Terrestrial table globe |
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