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23 MARCH
2018
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2 JUNE
2018
Globes: Visions of the World
Louvre Abu Dhabi
Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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| Celestial sphere c. 200 BCE |
Engraved silver |
| Ewer with astrological iconography showing the 7 planets in the houses of the 12 signs of the zodiac Herat (Afghanistan), c. 1220 |
Brass inlaid with silver |
| Yunus ibn al-Husayn al-Asturlabi Celestial globe With 1025 stars and 48 constellations, the earliest known globe to have been made in the Middle East Isfahan ? (Iran), 1144–1145 |
Brass cast, engraved and inlaid with silver |
| Vincenzo Maria Coronelli (1650–1718) Printed terrestrial globe Venice (Italy), 1688 |
Paper, wood and brass |
| Anonymous Heliocentric armillary sphere of the Copernican system "which holds that the Earth moves and the Sun is fixed at the centre of the world" c. 1725 |
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France |
| Jérôme Martinot (1671–1725) Geocentric armillary sphere demonstrating the Ptolemaic system made mobile by a clockwork mechanism Paris (France), between 1709 and 1718 |
Gilded copper and wood |