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Objekt 5

Planetarium

Description

The sun is in the center, the earth and the moon are running on an arm with a string drive. There is also an equatorial ring, two rings for the fixed stars, and rings for the orbits of the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn.

Object description

France, 18th c.

Wood, gilded and covered with printed paper, ivory, string, wooden base

Inscription: Monté par l'Auteur

Deposit of Emanuel George Sarasin-Grossmann, Basel.

Inv. 1982.688.

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