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Title Zeměkoule
Author's Data  
Scale 1:148,165,000
Publisher Rostoky u Prahy: J. Felkl a syn, [between 1870 and 1910]
Physical Description 1 tellurion: in colour, plaster, on a metal revolving mechanism with a lamp oil burner instead of the Sun, a metal horizontal circle with a calendar and Zodiac; 8,5 cm in diameter
General Comments on the Globe Height Globe Height c. 40 cm
General Comments on the Prime Meridian Position The prime meridian passes through the London Observatory in Greenwich
General Comment Tellurium represents the movement of the Earth on its axis and around the Sun, and at the same time the movement of the Moon around the Earth
Genre/Form Tellurion