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[Untitled terrestrial globe] Made by D.C. & A. Murdock West Boylston Mass.
Massachusetts,
Murdock & Co.,
[c1840].
Globe, 12 hand-coloured, engraved paper gores, clipped at 70 degrees latitude, with polar calottes, over a papier mâché and plaster sphere, varnished, mounted on wood three-legged stand. Quite toned, with a few pale stains.
Diameter: 76mm (3 inches).
15668
notes:
Biography
David C. Murdock (1815-1886) owned a shop in West Boylston, Massachusetts, where he produced and sold several globes for use in schools nationwide. Murdock also created an orrery planetarium to display his globe as part of the solar system, being one of the first American cartographers to mass-produce these globes and planetariums for education use. He later worked with his son, Albert, who he made a partner in his business in 1835.
Geography
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David C. Murdock (1815-1886) owned a shop in West Boylston, Massachusetts, where he produced and sold several globes for use in schools nationwide. Murdock also created an orrery planetarium to display his globe as part of the solar system, being one of the first American cartographers to mass-produce these globes and planetariums for education use. He later worked with his son, Albert, who he made a partner in his business in 1835.
Geography
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bibliography:
Deborah Jean Warner, 'The Geography of Heaven and Earth', Rittenhouse Journal of the American Scientific Instrument Enterprise,Vol.2, No.3,(1987):116-117.
