1851 Great Exhibition: Official Catalogue: Class X.: William Newton and Son
212 NEWTON, WM., and SON, 66 Chancery Lane, and 3 Fleet Street — Manufacturers.
Large manuscript celestial globe, 6 feet in diameter, in which the positions of the stars are laid down from Flamstead's Catalogue, brought up to the year 1850.
Pair of 25-inch globes, in carved rosewood frames.
Slate globes of various sizes, with the meridians and parallels of latitude marked upon them, so that outline maps may be drawn by the student with pencil.
Variety of globes of various sizes, and in different kinds of mounting.
Complete orrery, or planetarium, in which the motions of the earth and moon, and of the planets and their satellites, are effected by mechanism, actuated by clockwork.
Orreries, for educational purposes.
Armillary sphere, mounted in a brass meridian, and attached to a brass stand.
Spherical sun-dial for a lawn.
[A celestial globe is an inverted representation of the heavens, on which the stars are laid down according to their relative positions. The eye is supposed to be in the centre of the globe. A terrestrial globe is a representation of the surface of the earth as far as it is known. The diurnal motion of this globe is from west to east, whilst that of the celestial globe is from east to west, to represent the apparent diurnal motion of the sun and stars.—J. G.]