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I wanted to put a link from Armilliary to Armillary sphere as well - because though not as widely used its a perfectly valid spelling I think. See [1]. But I can't work out how to add it, because the top part of the page with the title and bracketed part where it says 'redirected from' doesn't show up when I edited the page. I would be very appreciative if someone could show me how to do this.
No essential nature ( talk) 18:08, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
Please notice that, in Chinese 渾儀 & 渾象 are different things.
渾儀 is that similar to western ones, with many rings to assist astronomers' observation. 渾象 is a big sphere with dots representing stars, to represent the circulation of Celestial sphere. (Some even big enough to let people get into it, and the "stars" are holes on the sphere, therefore the people can see spot of lights inside it. Just like the modern Planetarium dome)
I don't know how should they be distinguished in English, but they should be distinguished. Otherwise the readers may be confused. (The book of Joseph Needham helps?)-- Fongyun ( talk) 10:35, 24 December 2008 (UTC)
Modern man can't seamless hollow sphere?
[edit] Hellenistic world
The Greek astronomer Hipparchus (c. 190 – c. 120 BC) credited Eratosthenes (276 –194 BC) as the inventor of the armillary sphere.[1][2][3][4][5][6] The name of this device comes ultimately from the Latin armilla (circle, bracelet), since it has a skeleton made of graduated metal circles linking the poles and representing the equator, the ecliptic, meridians and parallels???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????????????????? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.70.58.206 ( talk) 11:55, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
O rly? —Preceding
unsigned comment added by
72.184.24.198 (
talk)
01:51, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
The section on "how to use" this device is very awkward. Can it be rewritten by someone with knowledge of the subject?
I really like how you added a use and specific descriptions of the rings. Many older astronomy instrument pages proved the information and pictures, but do not inform the reader on how to use these instruments of give the reader any idea of it. Nguyen.mkhoa ( talk) 19:10, 13 September 2013 (UTC)
The section on Chinese armillary spheres is mostly about celestial globes. Can this not be reduced in size? After all, the Greek section does not go on and on about celestial globes before mentioning the armillary sphere. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.232.62.242 ( talk) 16:59, 10 May 2018 (UTC)
The caption for the second-to-last picture -- (the monochrome ["black and white"] picture that appears second to the right) -- in the subsection Armillary_sphere#Renaissance (within the Armillary_sphere#History section), says: "Portarait in the frontispiece of Antoine Crespin's Propheties par l'astrologue du treschrestien Roy de France et de Madame la Duchesse de Savoye, Lyon, France, 1572".
According to Google, (the Google search engine, that is), it says that [the 5th letter of] the first "word" there, -- "Portarait" -- is probably a mistake.
This (the fact of the preceding paragraph) can be seen by doing a Plano vanilla Google search for [the character string] "Portarait". See, e.g., [the "search results" page] https://www.google.com/search?q=Portarait [URL 1] ... which contains [lines such as] << "Showing results for Portrait" >> and << "Search instead for Portarait" >>.
Fixing this (minor) TYPO would [perhaps] be "a drop in the bucket" [small] relative to some of the other "room for improvement" opportunities that might exist with this article. However, I intend to fix it ... (by removing the 5th letter of the word^H^H^H^H character string "Portarait"), unless there is some good reason not to do so.
Comments are welcome. Any comments? -- Mike Schwartz ( talk) 17:09, 31 July 2018 (UTC)
Done. This is the most verbiage I have ever seen for a simple spelling error, but thank you for spotting that.
Richard-of-Earth (
talk)
18:22, 31 July 2018 (UTC)
Would it be possible to mention somewhere a beautiful and gigantic sphere on the top of the Astronomy Tower in the Harry Potter movies? There are actually two models of the Solar system there, one small and other big enough to fill whole room. https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/File:Harry_and_Dumbledore_at_the_Astronomy_Tower_HBP.jpg, https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/File:Astronomy_tower_3929.png, https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/File:AstronomyTower2.jpg, https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/File:Draco_disarms_dumbledore.gif, https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/File:Draco_disarms_Dumbledore.jpg, https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/File:SolarSystemModel2.jpg, or https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/File:Astronomy_Classroom.jpg Ceplm ( talk) 18:02, 21 June 2020 (UTC)
Celestial globes are different from armillary spheres, and already have their own article. I think we can remove them from the history section, which is too long as is, especially the China section. Hi! ( talk) 08:12, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
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I wanted to put a link from Armilliary to Armillary sphere as well - because though not as widely used its a perfectly valid spelling I think. See [1]. But I can't work out how to add it, because the top part of the page with the title and bracketed part where it says 'redirected from' doesn't show up when I edited the page. I would be very appreciative if someone could show me how to do this.
No essential nature ( talk) 18:08, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
Please notice that, in Chinese 渾儀 & 渾象 are different things.
渾儀 is that similar to western ones, with many rings to assist astronomers' observation. 渾象 is a big sphere with dots representing stars, to represent the circulation of Celestial sphere. (Some even big enough to let people get into it, and the "stars" are holes on the sphere, therefore the people can see spot of lights inside it. Just like the modern Planetarium dome)
I don't know how should they be distinguished in English, but they should be distinguished. Otherwise the readers may be confused. (The book of Joseph Needham helps?)-- Fongyun ( talk) 10:35, 24 December 2008 (UTC)
Modern man can't seamless hollow sphere?
[edit] Hellenistic world
The Greek astronomer Hipparchus (c. 190 – c. 120 BC) credited Eratosthenes (276 –194 BC) as the inventor of the armillary sphere.[1][2][3][4][5][6] The name of this device comes ultimately from the Latin armilla (circle, bracelet), since it has a skeleton made of graduated metal circles linking the poles and representing the equator, the ecliptic, meridians and parallels???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????????????????? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.70.58.206 ( talk) 11:55, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
O rly? —Preceding
unsigned comment added by
72.184.24.198 (
talk)
01:51, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
The section on "how to use" this device is very awkward. Can it be rewritten by someone with knowledge of the subject?
I really like how you added a use and specific descriptions of the rings. Many older astronomy instrument pages proved the information and pictures, but do not inform the reader on how to use these instruments of give the reader any idea of it. Nguyen.mkhoa ( talk) 19:10, 13 September 2013 (UTC)
The section on Chinese armillary spheres is mostly about celestial globes. Can this not be reduced in size? After all, the Greek section does not go on and on about celestial globes before mentioning the armillary sphere. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.232.62.242 ( talk) 16:59, 10 May 2018 (UTC)
The caption for the second-to-last picture -- (the monochrome ["black and white"] picture that appears second to the right) -- in the subsection Armillary_sphere#Renaissance (within the Armillary_sphere#History section), says: "Portarait in the frontispiece of Antoine Crespin's Propheties par l'astrologue du treschrestien Roy de France et de Madame la Duchesse de Savoye, Lyon, France, 1572".
According to Google, (the Google search engine, that is), it says that [the 5th letter of] the first "word" there, -- "Portarait" -- is probably a mistake.
This (the fact of the preceding paragraph) can be seen by doing a Plano vanilla Google search for [the character string] "Portarait". See, e.g., [the "search results" page] https://www.google.com/search?q=Portarait [URL 1] ... which contains [lines such as] << "Showing results for Portrait" >> and << "Search instead for Portarait" >>.
Fixing this (minor) TYPO would [perhaps] be "a drop in the bucket" [small] relative to some of the other "room for improvement" opportunities that might exist with this article. However, I intend to fix it ... (by removing the 5th letter of the word^H^H^H^H character string "Portarait"), unless there is some good reason not to do so.
Comments are welcome. Any comments? -- Mike Schwartz ( talk) 17:09, 31 July 2018 (UTC)
Done. This is the most verbiage I have ever seen for a simple spelling error, but thank you for spotting that.
Richard-of-Earth (
talk)
18:22, 31 July 2018 (UTC)
Would it be possible to mention somewhere a beautiful and gigantic sphere on the top of the Astronomy Tower in the Harry Potter movies? There are actually two models of the Solar system there, one small and other big enough to fill whole room. https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/File:Harry_and_Dumbledore_at_the_Astronomy_Tower_HBP.jpg, https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/File:Astronomy_tower_3929.png, https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/File:AstronomyTower2.jpg, https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/File:Draco_disarms_dumbledore.gif, https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/File:Draco_disarms_Dumbledore.jpg, https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/File:SolarSystemModel2.jpg, or https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/File:Astronomy_Classroom.jpg Ceplm ( talk) 18:02, 21 June 2020 (UTC)
Celestial globes are different from armillary spheres, and already have their own article. I think we can remove them from the history section, which is too long as is, especially the China section. Hi! ( talk) 08:12, 1 May 2024 (UTC)