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Armillary SpheresRenaissance scientists created models using connected rings linking the poles and representing the equator and the ecliptic. Our armillary spheres show the earth in the center and the heavens in relation to the earth surrounding it. Classically appealing to the broad and cultured of mind.
Early man, looking at the heavens, believed the stars were fixed to the inside surface of a rotating sphere. From a modern perspectives it’s pretty strange to assume that our world is the center of the Universe. We now know that we live on the fridge of a nearly infinite and ever expanding universe. Armillary dials have the earth positioned inside a mesh of bronze hoops, symbolizing the course of the planets as known at the time. The course of the Sun is shown by a wide band called the ecliptic circle. Armillary or astronomical spheres go back to B.C. Greece.
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