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PAIR OF CELESTIAL AND TERRESTRIAL GLOBES of table The spheres supported by brass meridian circles rest on legs (later) with four baluster posts in black stained wood, supporting a table of equators and zodiacs. Signed Georg Christopher. EIMMART, after the research of Johannes HEVELIUS in Nuremberg. 18th century (a later meridian circle, restoration and engravings of later tables) George-Christoph EIMMART (1638-1705), astronomer, draftsman, engraver and publisher in Nuremberg. Johannes HEVELIUS (1610-1687), German astronomer from Danzig. Ref. sale Dumousset-Deburaux, December 7, 1997, n° 138, expert B. Peticollot.
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PAIR OF CELESTIAL AND TERRESTRIAL GLOBES of table The spheres supported by brass meridian circles rest on legs (later) with four baluster posts in black stained wood, supporting a table of equators and zodiacs. Signed Georg Christopher. EIMMART, after the research of Johannes HEVELIUS in Nuremberg. 18th century (a later meridian circle, restoration and engravings of later tables) George-Christoph EIMMART (1638-1705), astronomer, draftsman, engraver and publisher in Nuremberg. Johannes HEVELIUS (1610-1687), German astronomer from Danzig. Ref. sale Dumousset-Deburaux, December 7, 1997, n° 138, expert B. Peticollot.