# - Globes, Terrestrial and Celestial--Newton, William Edward, and Miles Berry.

Ibid. Newton's New and Improved Celestial Globe, on which all the Stars are taken from the elaborate and most approved catalogue of Piazzi, the Nebulas from Bode and the double Stars and those with proper motions from South. The right ascensions & declinations of the whole having been recalculated and accurately laid down for the year 1840. By Mr. W. Newton. London: Newton, son and Berry, 1 May[?] 1838



A pair of 38cm. (15 inch) globes in their original wooden tripod stands with brass meridian and hour rings, and wooden horizon rings with engraved paper scales and constellations, the terrestrial globe including the routes of Cook's three voyages (1768-1780) and numerous voyages in the Arctic (1818-1826) and Antarctic (1830-1832), the celestial globe showing the constellations in detail, some repair and restoration

The terrestrial globe most closely resembling Van der Krogt New 4 (but this example earlier); the celestial globe most closely resembling New 6 (again, this example earlier). No Newton globes of this diameter are recorded in Globes at Greenwich.

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a fine pair of apparently unrecorded globes, made by the Newton family "who, along with the Cary family, were the most important globe makers in the England in the nineteenth century" (Dahl and Gauvin).