Casgliadau Arlein

Indo-Persian celestial globe 1657-1658. Solid brass celestial globe with full set of constellation figures and about 1018 stars indicated by small inlaid silverpaints. Ecliptic latitude circles; equatorial tropic circles and equatorial polar circles. Zodiacal names engraved along ecliptic; constellations and many stars labelled; naskhi constellations are numbered; individual stars are numbered within same of the northern constellations. On a metal pedestal stand made by Newton & Co., 3 Fleet Street, London. Meridian ring also not contemporary with the globe.