Have we at last found the missing Meridian Hill Park armillary sphere? No, I'm afraid not. But after my recent column on the handsome bronze armillary sphere that once graced the park on 16th ...

St. John’s College in Santa Fe, New Mexico has unveiled the only working Tycho Brahe armillary sphere on Earth. The complex device is used to target and measure distances in space, and although ...

The British Museum has a collection of several armillary sphere rings that are incredibly well-crafted and detailed. When closed, they look like any other ring, but as the different bands are ...

Ptolemy who advanced the idea of a geocentric cosmology is said to have used an armillary sphere to demonstrate (through this three-dimensional model) the location of celestial bodies and their ...

Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. The Armillary Sphere in the center of Troup Square was the source of some controversy when it was constructed and erected in the early ...

I’m a historical landscape architect and have been very curious about the fate of the Noyes armillary sphere in Meridian Hill Park. The sculpture, by C. Paul Jennewein, was a significant piece ...

In March 2012, while the landmark building’s upper floors were being transformed into a Travelodge, owners Arcadia Group took the decision to remove its iconic armillary sphere on safety grounds.

This magnificent armillary sphere stands in the centre of the museum's top gallery. It was designed to show a model of the universe according the ancient astronomer, Claudius Ptolemy, with the ...

This magnificent armillary sphere stands in the centre of the museum's top gallery. It was designed to show a model of the universe according the ancient astronomer, Claudius Ptolemy, with the ...