Definitionn. a building housing an instrument for projecting the positions of the planets onto a domed ceiling
Last update: October 4, 2015
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Franeker also possesses a town hall (1591), which contains a planetarium, made by one Eise Eisinga in 1774-1881. [Please select]
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Cicero's descriptions of Archimedes' planetarium are (italics supplied): Gaius Sulpicius Gallus. [Please select]
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HELLENISTIC PERIOD Most interesting and frequently cited is the bronze planetarium said to have been made by Archimedes and described in a tantalisingly fragmentary fashion by Cicero and by later authors. [Please select]
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Available accounts of the development of the planetarium since the middle ages are very brief and especially weak on the early history: Helmut Werner, _From the Aratus globe to the Zeiss planetarium_, Stuttgart, 1957; C. [Please select]
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