Upon his request, the famous astronomers of the age, Johannes Regiomontanus and Marcin Bylica, set up an observatory in Buda and installed it with astrolabes and celestial globes.
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The seamless celestial globe invented in Mughal India, specifically Lahore and Kashmir, is considered to be one of the most impressive astronomical instruments and remarkable feats in metallurgy and engineering.
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Tucana first appeared on a celestial globe published in 1598 in Amsterdam by Plancius and Jodocus Hondius and was depicted in Johann Bayer's star atlas " Uranometria " of 1603.
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It has recently been claimed that a celestial globe based on Hipparchus's star catalog sits atop the broad shoulders of a large 2nd-century Roman statue known as the Farnese Atlas.
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An example of a surviving celestial globe is part of a Hellenistic sculpture, called the Farnese Atlas, surviving in a 2nd-century AD Roman copy in the Naples Archaeological Museum, Italy.
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Qian's water-powered celestial globe was still in use at the time of the Liang Dynasty ( 502 557 ), and successive models of water-powered armillary spheres were designed in subsequent dynasties.
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Altm�tter is remembered for his technical innovations and inventions, such as improvements for the fabrication of playing cards, a terrestrial and celestial globes, and development of new tools, to name a few.
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The highpoint of Korean astronomy was during the Joseon period, where men such as Jang created devices such as celestial globes which indicated the positions of the sun, moon, and the stars.
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It took the genius of Archimedes in 250 B . C . to create a celestial globe with a water-powered mechanism for reproducing the motions of the Sun, Moon and five known planets.
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A bill in the accounts of 11 April 1717 for " repairing the globes in the library " is the earliest reference to the Middle Temple's ownership of the Molyneux terrestrial and celestial globes.
