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A detailed portrait of the Mughal Emperor Jahangir holding a celestial globe by Abul Hasan (dated 1617 AD) [16] [17] A 17th-century celestial globe was made by Diya' ad-din Muhammad in Lahore, 1668 (now in Pakistan). [18] It is now housed at the National Museum of Scotland. It is encircled by a meridian ring and a horizon ring. [19]
Globe of Gottorf, 21st century reconstruction at Gottorf Castle, near Schleswig, Germany Globe of Gottorf, 18th century reconstruction at the Kunstkamera in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The Globe of Gottorf is a 17th-century, large, walk-in globe of the Earth and the celestial sphere. It measures 3.1 meters in diameter.
Visualization of a celestial sphere. In astronomy and navigation, the celestial sphere is an abstract sphere that has an arbitrarily large radius and is concentric to Earth.All objects in the sky can be conceived as being projected upon the inner surface of the celestial sphere, which may be centered on Earth or the observer.
Modern astrophysics has extended the field of study of celestial bodies to non-electromagnetic vectors, such as neutrinos, neutrons and cosmic rays or gravitational waves. Thus, new types of observatories have been developed. Interferometers are at the core of gravitational wave detectors.
A globe is a spherical model of Earth, of some other celestial body, or of the celestial sphere. Globes serve purposes similar to maps, but, unlike maps, they do not distort the surface that they portray except to scale it down. A model globe of Earth is called a terrestrial globe. A model globe of the celestial sphere is called a celestial globe.
The Celestial Globe 天體儀: Ferdinand Verbiest: 1673: 1876 stars grouped into 282 asterisms [30] [31] Picture depicted Song Dynasty fictional astronomer (呉用 Wu Yong) with a Celestial Globe (天體儀) Japanese painter: 1675: showing top portion of a Celestial Globe: File:Chinese astronomer 1675.jpg: Japanese Edo period Star Chart ...
The celestial sphere is an imaginary globe of infinite size with the Earth at its center. [6] Positions on the celestial sphere are often expressed using two coordinates: declination and sidereal hour angle, which are similar to latitude and longitude on the surface of the Earth.
The Globe Museum (German: Globenmuseum) is a museum in the Palais Mollard, Vienna, Austria, part of the Austrian National Library.It was opened in 1956, and is the only public museum in the world devoted to globes, being three-dimensional models of Earth or other celestial bodies, or spherical representations of the celestial sphere.