天球儀、地球儀

天球儀、地球儀
高62.5釐米
約翰與威廉·凱里
1816年

　　這對天球儀、地球儀出自18—19世紀英國著名的科學儀器製造商約翰與威廉·凱里公司，該公司以製作精密天文儀器、地球儀和數學工具聞名。根據產品標註，地球儀「呈現庫克船長多次航跡及環球航海家新發現」，天球儀「精準標註逾3500顆恆星，數據源自皇家學會吉爾皮先生基於1800年歲差校正的精密觀測，各星座疆界嚴格界定」。

Celestial and terrestrial table globes
Height: 62.5 cm
John & William Cary
1816

　This pair of celestial and terrestrial globes was crafted by John & William Cary, a renowned British scientific instrument manufacturer active in the 18th and 19th centuries, celebrated for their precision astronomical instruments, globes, and mathematical tools. As inscribed on the terrestrial globe, it “exhibiting the different tracks of Captain Cook, and the new discoveries made by him and other circumnavigators.” The celestial globe, meanwhile, boasts “on which are correctly laid down upwards of 3,500 Stars selected from the most accurate observations and calculated for the Year 1800, with the extent of each Constellation precisely defined.”