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    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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    Farnese Atlas (redirect from Farnese Globe)
    Atlas is a 2nd-century CE 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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    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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    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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    craftsman known for making seamless celestial globes and astrolabes. In 1659, Tatah-wi made a 21 cm diameter celestial globe. As no seams are visible in a photograph...
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    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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    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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    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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    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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    (1985), Islamicate Celestial Globes: Their History, Construction, and Use, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC "Celestial globe". National Museums...
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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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    Classical art shows Atlas holding the celestial spheres, not the terrestrial globe; the solidity of the marble globe borne by the Farnese Atlas may have...
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    for his reforms to the imperial calendar and his construction of a celestial globe featuring a liquid-driven escapement, the first in a long tradition...
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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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    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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    New Method for Mechanizing the Rotation of an Armillary Sphere and a Celestial Globe"), written in 1092, was the final product of his life's achievements...
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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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    et eorum usu (Treatise on Globes and Their Use) which was written to explain the use of the terrestrial and celestial globes that had been made and published...
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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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    Vincenzo Coronelli (category Globe makers)
    to make a set of terrestrial and celestial globes for Ranuccio II Farnese, Duke of Parma. Each finely crafted globe was five feet in diameter (c. 175 cm)...
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    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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    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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    world devoted to globes, being three-dimensional models of Earth or other celestial bodies, or spherical representations of the celestial sphere. As early...
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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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    Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna including one that incorporates a mechanised celestial globe made of quartz (Bergkristalluhr) and one displaying planetary motion...
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    measure the position of celestial bodies relative to the celestial horizon and the zenith – the altitude azimuth. Celestial globe, six feet in diameter...
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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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    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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    Star chart (redirect from Celestial chart)
    A star chart is a celestial map of the night sky with astronomical objects laid out on a grid system. They are used to identify and locate constellations...
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