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1 Armillary sphere
Armillary sphere[a:´miləri¸sfiə] n астр. армира. -
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1. n сфера, шар2. n глобус3. n земной шар4. n планета, небесное светило5. n небо, небеса, небесная сфера; небосвод6. n сфера, круг, поле, область7. n социальная среда, кругhe moves in quite another sphere — он вращается в совершенно другой среде, он принадлежит к совершенно другому кругу
the five elements symbolized by a sphere, crescent, pyramid, circle and square — пять элементов, символически изображаемых в виде шара, полумесяца, пирамиды, круга и квадрата
8. v книжн. замыкать, окружать9. v книжн. делать круглым как шар, придавать форму шара10. v книжн. наполнять до краёв11. v книжн. арх. вращатьСинонимический ряд:1. ball (noun) ball; globe; orb; rondure; round; shell2. field (noun) bailiwick; champaign; demesne; dominion; field; precinct; region; terrain; territory; walk3. planet (noun) earth; planet; star; terrene4. position (noun) position; rank; station; stratum; walk of life5. realm (noun) ambit; area; circle; compass; coterie; domain; environment; extension; extent; orbit; province; range; reach; realm; scope; set; sweep6. ball (verb) ball; conglobate; conglobe; ensphere; round -
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сфера, шар@apparent celestial sphereвидимая небесная сфера@armillary sphereармиллярная сфера@celestial sphereнебесная сфера@diffusely-reflecting sphereдиффузно-отражающая сфера@fossil Strömgren sphereреликтовая сфера Стремгрена, остающаяся после эволюции возбуждающей ее звезды@geocentric celestial sphereгеоцентрическая небесная сфера@Hill sphereсфера Хилла@interstellar graphite spheresмежзвездные графитовые частицы@ionized sphereсфера ионизации (вокруг звезды)@ -
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[ʹɑ:mılərı] aармиллярный, состоящий из колец или кругов -
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армиллярныйармиллярный, состоящий из колец или кругов - * sphere армиллярная сфера (древний астрономический прибор)Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > armillary
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13 Su Song (Su Sung)
SUBJECT AREA: Horology[br]b. 1020 Chinad. 1101 China[br]Chinese astronomer and maker of a mechanical clock.[br]Su Song had a model armillary sphere in his home, which enabled him to study and understand the instrument, but he could not receive an imperial command to make a full-size one before holding an official position. This he attained, and he moved in high official circles in Imperial China; his official appointments included Ambassador, Minister of State and Deputy Imperial Tutor. At the same time he was an outstanding astronomer and calendrical scientist. With the assistance of Han Gonglian, he constructed a water-driven mechanical escapement clock and clocktower in 1088, which he described in detail in his Xin Yi Xian Fa Yao, completed in 1094; this book was noteworthy for illustrations of the armillary sphere and its component parts. The tower included an armillary sphere and celestial globe with clock drive. By applying clockwork to the observational side of the sphere, Su Song anticipated the clockwork drive of the telescope introduced by Robert Hooke six centuries later.Su Song was also the pharmaceutical naturalist of the Tu Jing Ben Cao of 1061.[br]Bibliography1094, Xin Yi Xian Fa Yao.Further ReadingJ.Needham, Science and Civilisation in China, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1959–86, Vols III, pp. 208, 361–6; VI. 1, 140, 174, 227, 252, 281, 335, 475, 477;Heavenly Clockwork, 1960, pp. 2–60, 64, 68, 70, 93–4, 115–18, 123–4, 133, 160, 162;Clerks and Craftsmen in China and the West, 1970, pp. 9, 6–7, 11–12, 91, 130–1, 192, 210ff., 221–3, 235, 280, 406.LRD -
14 Flag, Portuguese national
Portugal's national flag was adopted under the First Republic on 19 June 1911. In the center of two fields of bright green and red, which symbolize Portugal's land and the blood shed for the good of the nation, are two shields superimposed on an armillary sphere in yellow. Most significant is the use of the symbol of the armillary sphere, which suggests Portugal's historic role in exploration of the globe and the spirit of scientific discovery. All regimes since the First Republic have adopted this flag unchanged. The armillary sphere was an ancient astronomical device comprised of a globe surrounded by rings, which represented celestial movements and their measurement.Historical dictionary of Portugal > Flag, Portuguese national
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15 Zhang Sixun (Chang Ssu-Hsun)
SUBJECT AREA: Horology[br]b. fl. late 10th century[br]Chinese astronomer and clockmaker who built the earliest recorded astronomical clock tower with a hydromechanical escapement.[br]Most clepsydra clocks, such as that of al-Jarazi, measured time continuously by the constant flow of a liquid and most mechanical clocks measure time discontinuously by means of an escapement. The clepsydra clock devised by Zhang Sixun in 976 and completed in 979 was unusual as it incorporated an escapement. It consisted of a large wheel with buckets around its periphery. A constant stream of water was directed into one of the buckets until it reached a predetermined weight, this released the wheel, allowing it to rotate to a new position where the process was repeated (this mechanism may have been introduced by the Chinese astronomer and mathematician Zhang Heng in the second century). The water was later replaced by mercury to prevent freezing in winter. With suitable gearing the movement of the wheel was used to drive a celestial globe, a carousel for written time announcements and jacks for audible time signals. This clock has not survived and is known only from the work Hsin I Hsiang Fa Yao (New Armillary Sphere and Celestial Globe System Essentials), which was printed in 1172 and is ascribed to Su Song. This work also describes two similar but later astronomical clock towers with water-wheel escape-ments. Several models of the water-wheel escapement have been constructed from the description in this work.[br]Further ReadingJ.Needham (ed.), 1965, Science and Civilisation in China Vol. IV.2, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 38, 111, 165, 463, 469–71, 490, 524, 527–8, 533, 540.J.H.Combridge, 1975, "The astronomical clocktowers of Chang Ssu-Hsun and his successors, A.D. 976 to 1126", Antiquarian Horology 9: 288–301.J.Needham, Wang Ling and J.de Solla Price, 1986, Heavenly Clockwork. The Great Astronomical Clocks of Medieval China (2nd edn with supplement by J.H.Combridge), London (for a broader view of Chinese horology).J.H.Combridge, 1979, "Clockmaking in China", in The Country Life International Dictionary of Clocks, ed. Alan Smith, London.DVBiographical history of technology > Zhang Sixun (Chang Ssu-Hsun)
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Armillary sphere — An armillary sphere (variations are known as spherical astrolabe, armilla, or armil) is a model of the celestial sphere. Description and use of the armillary sphere The exterior parts of this machine are a compages of brass rings, which represent … Wikipedia
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