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Date : 1579
Material : Gilded silver, Gilded tin, Silver
Acquisition : Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan (1917)
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Objet(s) d'Art
Object
Vitrine : V01
Area related
Vienne (Austria)
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The globe revolves to simulate the movements of the stars, while the sun moves along the path of the ecliptic in accord with the sun's apparent motion though the zodiac during the year. The small dial near the top of the meridian ring registers mean solar time, while the movable ring within the horizon circle functions as a calendar. The globe is listed in the early seventeenth-century inventory of the Kunstkammer of the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolph II.
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