Trippensee Planetarium Company, A School Tellurium, Detroit, Michigan. ca. 1830’s 04_19_23 eventually heading to what is

eventually heading to what is now Kansas to find the supposedly rich city of Quivira

drawing the boundary question into sharp relief

Plate size: 6

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

This one extends further east than the BnF copy

Trippensee Planetarium Company, A School Tellurium, Detroit, Michigan. ca. 1830’s 04_19_23 eventually heading to what isTrippensee 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.