St. John’s College in Santa Fe, New Mexico has unveiled the only working Tycho Brahe armillary sphere on Earth. The complex device is used to target and measure distances in space, and although ...

A striking example is the huge armillary sphere by the sixteenth-century ... The instrument is a sumptuous demonstration piece rather than an observational tool. Its lavish ornamentation reflects ...

Have we at last found the missing Meridian Hill Park armillary sphere? No, I'm afraid not. But after my recent column on the handsome bronze armillary sphere that once graced the park on 16th ...

I’m a historical landscape architect and have been very curious about the fate of the Noyes armillary sphere in Meridian Hill Park. The sculpture, by C. Paul Jennewein, was a significant piece ...

LJUBLJANA, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- A full-scale replica of the armillary sphere with rotating rings created by Augustin Ferdinand Hallerstein, or Liu Songling by his Chinese name, in the 18th century ...

The British Museum has a collection of several armillary sphere rings that are incredibly well-crafted and detailed. When closed, they look like any other ring, but as the different bands are ...

Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. The Armillary Sphere in the center of Troup Square was the source of some controversy when it was constructed and erected in the early ...

This is an armillary sphere ring which usually represents a model of objects in the sky, centered on the Earth or the Sun. Initially, these were only models and were used by astrologers to study ...