| 11. | A large part of Mercator's income came from the sales of his terrestrial and celestial globes.
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| 12. | King Atlas was a legendary king of Mauretania credited with the invention of the celestial globe.
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| 13. | The world s first seamless celestial globe was built by Mughal scientists under the patronage of Jahangir.
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| 14. | It is also shown on his smaller world map of 1594 and on early Dutch celestial globes.
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| 15. | Among her undergraduate students at Vassar was astronomer Vera Rubin, to whom she gave a celestial globe.
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| 16. | These were each a pair of globes, with the larger, hinged celestial globe encircled a smaller globe.
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| 17. | This inspired the craft of making celestial globes on which artists drew the night sky, particularly the constellations.
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| 18. | The Louvre commissioned the company to remake Coronelli's original celestial globe, first made for Louis XVI in 1683.
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| 19. | Although different editions of the globes survive, they were all either the basic terrestrial or basic celestial globe.
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| 20. | Only a single step separates the celestial globe from the earth-centered theory, but Chinese astronomers never took that step.
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