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Armillary

November 30, 2009

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter The armillary is also known as an armillary sphere, sperical astrolabe, armilla, and armil. Essentially, it is a celestial sphere. A celestial sphere is an imaginary sphere of arbitrary radius, concentric with the Earth and rotating upon the same axis. Its [...]

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