- A
armillary sphere (variations are
known as
spherical astrolabe, armilla, or armil) is a
model of
objects in the sky (on the
celestial sphere), consisting...
- country’s
national coat of arms
stands in the
middle of the
Portuguese armillary sphere and shield,
centered over the
colour boundary at
equal distance...
-
Portuguese arms
placed over a
golden armillary sphere. The
basic version consists of only the
Portuguese shield over the
armillary sphere. This
version was intended...
-
mathematics and astronomy,
reintroducing to
Western Christendom the abacus,
armillary sphere, and
water organ,
which had been lost to
Latin Europe since the...
-
official Liang Lingzan in 725 AD to
operate a water-powered
armillary sphere,
although Su's
armillary sphere was the
first to be
provided with a mechanical...
- Santucci's
armillary sphere is a
Ptolemaic armillary sphere at the
Museo Galileo in Florence, the
largest existing in the world.
Begun on
March 4, 1588...
- The
Sceptre of the
Armillary, also
known as the
Sceptre of the
United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil, and the
Algarves (Portuguese:
Ceptro Armilar; Ceptro...
- An
astrolabe is
essentially a
plane (two-dimensional)
version of an
armillary sphere,
which had
already been
invented in the ****enistic
period and...
-
several of his inventions. He
invented the world's
first water-powered
armillary sphere to ****ist
astronomical observation;
improved the
inflow water clock...
- century, the French-born Pope
Sylvester II
reintroduced the
abacus and
armillary sphere and
introduced Arabic numerals and
clocks to much of Europe. The...
