Trippensee Planetarium Company, A School Tellurium, Detroit, Michigan. ca. 1830’s 04_19_23 the 1840s was the boom

the 1840s was the boom decade of the Oregon Trail

and ancient ruins

The immediacy of his images is irresistible

This one extends further east than the BnF copy

Spanish royal cosmographer who worked at Seville in the Casa de Contratación

Trippensee Planetarium Company, A School Tellurium, Detroit, Michigan. ca. 1830’s 04_19_23 the 1840s was the boomTrippensee Planetarium CompanyA School Tellurium The tellurium based around a turned wooden pilk, surmounted by an inch brass ball (representing the sun), with a small plaster planet (Mars) on a wire. Extending out from the pillar, an arm with metal tag with makers name. At the end of the arm is a 3 inch Rand McNally globe, and plaster moon ball, the planets all connected by chain gearing so that as the arm moves the planets rotate. Detroit, Michigan.