Celestial globe Sentence Examples

There is also a celestial globe in the background.

Archimedes, the famous mathematician, had a celestial globe of glass, in the centre of which was a small terrestrial globe.

The celestial globe of Hipparchus still existed in the Alexandrian library in the time of Ptolemy, who himself refers to globes in his Almagest, as also in the Geography.

Weigel (1696) produced a hollow celestial globe in copper, having a small terrestrial globe in its centre.

Modern asterisms first appear in the Phaenomena of Eudoxus about 370 B.C. But Eudoxus, there is reason to believe, consulted, not the heavens, but a celestial globe of an anterior epoch, on which the stars and the signs were forced into unnatural agreement.