Sentence examples for celestial globe from inspiring English sources
He may also have built a celestial globe.
The first record of Honsang (Celestial globe) was found in 『Sejong Sillok』 in Korea.
The stargazer sits before a celestial globe, his fingers spanning the constellation Pegasus.
Inside, the writer saw harpoon displays, whale's vertebra, a barber pole and celestial globe.
The sphere is a skeleton celestial globe, with circles divided into degrees for angular measurement.
Furthermore, the scale system of rings on Honsang was changed from 365.25 Do, Jucheondo (Celestial globe circumference), to 360°.
Celestial globes are also still in use.
Numerous small metal celestial globes from Islamic makers of the 11th century onward remain.
This inspired the craft of making celestial globes on which artists drew the night sky, particularly the constellations.
The first printed planispheres (representations of the celestial sphere on a flat surface) were produced in 1515, and printed celestial globes appeared at about the same time.
Blythe House in West London, the Science Museum's main storage facility, has, as might be expected, cabinets full of early astronomical instruments such as astrolabes, celestial globes and orreries.
