Celestial globes show the apparent positions of the stars in the sky. They omit the Sun, Moon, and planets because the positions of these bodies vary relative...
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A globe is a spherical model of Earth, of some other celestial body, or of the celestial sphere. Globes serve purposes similar to maps, but, unlike maps...
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In astronomy and navigation, the celestial sphere is an abstract sphere that has an arbitrarily large radius and is concentric to Earth. All objects in...
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important features, such as the ecliptic. As such, it differs from a celestial globe, which is a smooth sphere whose principal purpose is to map the constellations...
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Hipparchus (section Celestial globe)
data on the celestial globe of Hipparchus or in his star catalog may have been preserved in the only surviving large ancient celestial globe which depicts...
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celestial globe was made by Geng Shou-chang (耿壽昌) between 70 BCE and 50 BCE. In the Ming dynasty, the celestial globe at that time was a huge globe,...
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Muhammad Saleh Thattvi (section Celestial globe)
creating a massive, seamless celestial globe using a secret cire perdue method in the Mughal Empire, the famous celestial globe of Muhammad Saleh Thattvi...
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Anders Åkerman (category Globe makers)
He produced a first model pair, consisting of a terrestrial globe and a celestial globe, in 1759–60. A smaller, second model pair was produced from 1762...
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Yi Xing (section The escapement and celestial globe)
engineer, and philosopher during the Tang dynasty. His astronomical celestial globe featured a liquid-driven escapement, the first in a long tradition...
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Farnese Atlas (redirect from Farnese Globe)
Atlas is a 2nd-century AD Roman marble sculpture of Atlas holding up a celestial globe. Probably a copy of an earlier work of the Hellenistic period, it is...
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Emery Molyneux (redirect from Molyneux globes)
an English Elizabethan maker of globes, mathematical instruments and ordnance. His terrestrial and celestial globes, first published in 1592, were the...
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observer on the meridian ring of the globe. The initial blueprint for a portable celestial globe to measure celestial coordinates came from Spanish Muslim...
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The Ambassadors (Holbein) (section The globes)
are a selection of scientific instruments including two globes (one terrestrial and one celestial), a shepherd's dial, a quadrant, a torquetum, and a polyhedral...
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Erdapfel (redirect from Martin Behaim’s globe)
made from antiquity, such as The Globe of Crates. None are known to have survived, even as fragments. A celestial globe, part of the Farnese Atlas, has...
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Museo Galileo (redirect from Arab celestial globe)
right hand Chemistry cabinet Winter plate electrical machine Arab celestial globe, possibly the oldest one in the world Museo Galileo carries out research...
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Law No. 8.421, altered the celestial globe with the addition of six stars. The precise positions of the 27 stars on the globe make the Brazilian flag one...
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(1985), Islamicate Celestial Globes: Their History, Construction, and Use, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC "Celestial globe". National Museums...
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depending on the context. The "year circle" on the celestial globe is the celestial equator. Dividing the celestial equator by 360, we obtain the degrees of right...
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attention focused on the Heavens. She is usually represented with a celestial globe to which she points with a little staff, and depicted in modern art...
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album Landsale (album) CSCL Globe, for a time the largest container ship in the world Globe (ship), several ships Celestial globe, show the apparent positions...
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celestial globe published in 1597 (or 1598) in Amsterdam by Plancius with Jodocus Hondius. The first depiction of this constellation in a celestial atlas...
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metal globe without any seams, even with modern technology. It was in the 1980s, however, that Emilie Savage-Smith discovered several celestial globes without...
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Gerardus Mercator (category Globe makers)
large part of Mercator's income came from sales of terrestrial and celestial globes. For sixty years they were considered the finest in the world, and...
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the perspective of an observer on Earth, the Sun's movement around the celestial sphere over the course of a year traces out a path along the ecliptic...
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bird-of-paradise was once wrongly believed to lack feet. First depicted on a celestial globe by Petrus Plancius in 1598, it was charted on a star atlas by Johann...
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Houtman. Tucana first appeared on a 35-centimetre-diameter (14 in) celestial globe published in 1598 in Amsterdam by Plancius and Jodocus Hondius and...
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The Globe of Gottorf is a 17th-century, large, walk-in globe of the Earth and the celestial sphere. It measures 3.1 meters in diameter. Conceived and...
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集賢殿; Jiphyeonjeon). Sejong's first assignment to Jang was to build a celestial globe to measure astronomical objects. Books obtained from Arabian and Chinese...
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Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman, and it first appeared on a celestial globe 35 cm (14 in) in diameter published in 1597 (or 1598) in Amsterdam...
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a celestial globe by Caspar Vopel, who is credited with the asterism's designation as a constellation. That year, it also appeared on a celestial map...
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