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Exploring the Past, Engaging the Future

Anonymous. A Correct Globe with New Discoveries, ca. 1775.
A pocket globe of typical form with engraved hand-colored gores and axis pins at the poles contained in a case opening into two concave hemispheres – one with an applied engraved celestial chart of the Northern Sky, the other with an applied Southern Sky celestial chart. (Courtesy of the Jay I. Kislak Foundation)