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![DELURE, J[ean] B[aptiste] Globe céleste.](https://i0.wp.com/crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/15731_1H.jpg?fit=4000%2C4922&ssl=1)
Globe céleste.
calculé sur les Observations les plus nouvelles pour l'An 1700.
Paris,
Chez I. B. Delure Sur le quay de l'Or. ge [l'horloge] A. P. Du Roy,
1705.
Globe, 12 hand-coloured engraved paper gores, over a papier mâché and plaster sphere, with engraved golden copper meridian, mounted on a wooden and brass table stand with five columns.
Diameter: 150mm (5.5 inches).
15731
notes:
Biography
Jean Baptiste Delure (c1660-1736) was an editor and publisher of prints and maps, as well as an engineer of mathematical and scientific instruments. He also manufactured globes, but only two are recorded: the present celestial globe, and a terrestrial one of the same dimensions, produced in the same year. These were presumably designed as a pair.
Astronomy
Delure presents the cartography in French. The equator and ecliptic are both graduated a...
Jean Baptiste Delure (c1660-1736) was an editor and publisher of prints and maps, as well as an engineer of mathematical and scientific instruments. He also manufactured globes, but only two are recorded: the present celestial globe, and a terrestrial one of the same dimensions, produced in the same year. These were presumably designed as a pair.
Astronomy
Delure presents the cartography in French. The equator and ecliptic are both graduated a...
bibliography:
Dekker and van der Krogt fig. 39; 'Jean-Baptiste Delure' (Bibliotheque Nationale, 2019).
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