The Unified Astronomy Thesaurus

Armillary spheres

http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/67

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Armil
Armilla
Spherical astrolabes
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67 original
definition An ancient instrument, used since ancient times until the Middle ages and later, to determine positions of celestial bodies. It consisted of an assemblage of rings, all circles of the same sphere, designed to represent the positions of the important circles of the celestial sphere.
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