Josiah Loring
12-inch Celestial Table Globe
136 Washington Street, Boston: 1841
Turned maple stand
18 inches high, 17 inch diameter horizon band
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12-Inch Celestial Table Globe
Josiah Loring: 1841
Josiah Loring: 1841
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The celestial globe surmounted by printed hour circle and brass hour pointer, within full calibrated meridian, the horizon band with engraved paper calendar and zodiac, raised on turned maple stand with four legs joined by an X-form stretcher. The constellations (including zodiac signs) are elegantly depicted by figures of mythical beasts and scientific instruments, and the stars are shown in a chart to nine orders of magnitude, together with planetary nebulae.
This globe is by Josiah Loring, who was joined by Gilman Joslin in the late 1830s to become one of the greatest and most prolific American globe makers ever. It is an early globe for this or any American globe maker, and is rich in tone, showing the classically inspired constellations.
For information on Gilman Joslin, please see our Guide to Globe Makers.
Cartouche: LORING’S/ CELESTIAL GLOBE/ Containing all the known Stars Nebulae & c/ Compiled from the Works of/ WOLLASTON, FLAMSTED [sic.], DE LA CAILLE,/ HAVELIUS, MAYER,/ BRADLEY, HERSCHEL, MASKELYNE/ The Transactions of the/ ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY of LONDON/ &c. &c./ From Smith’s New English Globe/ Boston Josiah Loring, 136 Washington St. 1841
References:
Dekker, Elly and van der Krogt, Peter. Globes from the Western World. London: Zwemmer, 1993. pp. 126, 140, 176.
How to Use a Globe, Joslin’s Terrestrial and Celestial Globes/ Joslin’s Hand-book to the Terrestrial and Celestial Globes. Gilman Joslin & Son, Manufacturers and Dealers, 5 Mt. Vernon Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts: [n.d., but c. 1890], pp. 3-4.
Warner, Deborah Jean. “The Geography of Heaven and Earth,” Rittenhouse Journal of the American Scientific Instrument Enterprise, Vol. 2, No. 3. 1987. pp. 100-103.
Yonge, Ena L. A Catalogue of Early Globes, Library Series No. 6. American Geographical Society: 1968. pp. 37-38.