Pair of terrestrial and celestial globes
Description:
Very few 17th century’s terrestrial and celestial globes remain extant today. These artefacts, of delicate complexity and wanton fragility, were devised by ingenious cartographers through meticulous observations, multitudinous calculations and speculations and the breath and depth of the geographical and astronomic content of these masterpieces rendered their hand-crafted execution, assembly and finishing a time consuming process.
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