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   Busk
   Hans
   H. B. ;
   
   
   1815 in London
   1882
   Westminster
   Welsh poet Hans Busk the elder (1772-1862)
   sisters Julia Clara Pitt Byrne, Rachel Harriette B., Maria Georgiana, who married Sir Robert Loder, 1st Baronet, & Frances Rosalie, mar. C.Vansittard
   educated at King's College London and Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating w. B.A. 1839 & M.A. 1844;
   United Kingdom
   "A Gobe of the Planet Mars, Scale 1 in to 450 Miles, Constructed by Captain Hans Busk, | of Trinity College Cambridge | And presented by him to his College, March 1873”; diameter 23 cm ;
   Royal Geographical Society (fellow 1873) ;
   instrument makers Malby and Sons (for Mars globe 1873) ;
   astronomical drawing ; 3D globes of Mars (1873)
   http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/prints-multiples/an-english-9-inch-manuscript-globe-of-mars-5067933-details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=506
   www.staff.science.uu.nl/~gent0113/celestia/martianglobes.htm http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/ff/Niesten_Mars_globe_segments.jpg
   DNB ;
   
   4456992
   
   







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