МАЭ № 7717-3. МЛ-3654

Terrestrial globe - sundial

first half of the 18th cent.

brass, lead, paint

height 21.0; diameter 12.0

Brass ball with engraved map. The globe is belted with equatorial ring with hour scale, meridian ring with Sun declination scale around the cut designed for gnomon (missing), two rings connecting equator and meridian. The globe map has French geographic names, incomplete coordinate grid (longitude arcs between the tropics). Zero meridian - Ferro island.

History of Science Monuments. 14th-19th centuries. Mikhail Lomonosov Museum