armillary

     

An armillary sphere (variations are known as spherical astrolabe, armilla, or armil) is a moel of the celestial sphere.

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  • (Cheryl reports from the American Museum of Natural History in New York.) A new pavilion features a 3500 lb. sculpture of one of these spheres used by early astronomers to represent the circles of the heavens

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