Celestial Globe
Stars shine on the surface of this globe, which depicts the constellations in the sky as though seen from above, rather than from the surface of the earth. For this reason, constellations like the “Big Dipper” (Ursa Major) near the north pole appear backwards. Scientists used...
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32908
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object
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normalized
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Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris; purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.
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CC0
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en
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33
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