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Celestial table globe. Celestial table globe. Astronomical details on the sphere are almost the same as Anich GLB0078. However, this globe has Greek letters of their Bayer notation added to the stars in manuscript and the zodiacal constellations numbered
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Celestial table globe. Celestial table globe. Astronomical details on the sphere are the same as Anich GLB0078. There is a magnitude table below Crater in a cartouche, with the numbers of stars given for each magnitude class. A total of 1863 stars are dep
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Celestial table globe. Celestial table globe. It forms a pair with the terrestrial globe, Anich GLB0077. Astronomical details on the sphere include a magnitude table below Crater in a cartouche, with the numbers of stars given for each magnitude class. A
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Celestial table globe. Fragment from celestial table globe. Astronomical details on the sphere are the same as Anich GLB0078. There is a magnitude table below Crater in a cartouche, with the numbers of stars given for each magnitude class. A total of 1863
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Terrestrial table globe. Terrestrial table globe. It forms a pair with the celestial globe, Anich GLB0078. Geographical details on the sphere show California drawn as a peninsula. There is a hypothetical southern continent, which is labelled 'Terra A
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