alastair's heart monitor

To give me something to do while I'm waiting for and then recovering from heart surgery, and to keep friends, relatives and colleagues in touch with the state of my head

Thursday, April 06, 2006

Stuff Yer Satellite Navigation

Look at this perfectly exquisite pocket globe, which I found on a site called Jalopy Junktown (click on the heading to go there) Cary's Pocket Globe agreeable to the latest Discoveries London pubd. by J & W Cary Strand Apr.1.1792, printed in cartouche, the twelve hand-coloured gores applied to papier mache sphere, mounted by two pins at the poles in fish skin spherical case with hemispheres applied with coloured gores, one titles "A Table of Latitudes & Longitudes of places not given on the Globe", the other titled "The World as known in Caesar's Time agreeable to D'Anville", 3.5in (9cm) diam.

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