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Equatorium from Johannes Schöner
An equatorium (plural, equatoria) is an astronomical calculating instrument. It can be used for finding the positions of the Moon, Sun, and planets without arithmetic operations, using a geometrical model to represent the position of a given celestial body.
An equatorium (plural, equatoria) is an astronomical calculating instrument. It can be used for finding the positions of the Moon, Sun, and planets without...
of angles between planets and other astronomical bodies, as well as an equatorium called the Albion which could be used for astronomical calculations such...
Equatorial ring – Instrument to determine the moment of the equinoxes Equatorium – Astronomical calculating instrument Gnomon – Part of a sundial that...
Duisburg Zoo Friends (Verein der Duisburger Zoofreunde) in 2000. The Equatorium is the largest section of Duisburg Zoo. It derives its name for housing...
(Arzachel), 1029–1087, Andalusian astronomer and engineer who developed the equatorium and universal (latitude-independent) astrolabe and compiled a Zij later...
by Jabir ibn Aflah, the invention of the universal astrolabe and the equatorium by al-Zarqali, the first description of the crankshaft by al-Jazari, the...
title. It is a description of the construction and use of a planetary equatorium, which was used in calculating planetary orbits and positions (at the...
designer and maker of mathematical instruments, globes and astrolabes Equatorium List of astronomical instruments Mariner's astrolabe Yantraraja Zeiss-Planetarium...
after Archimedes' lifetime. Campanus of Novara described a planetary equatorium in his Theorica Planetarum, and included instructions on how to build...
Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm al-Zarqālī (Arzachel) of al-Andalus, invented the Equatorium[citation needed], a mechanical analog computer device used for finding...
14th-century scientific work which describes the construction and use of an equatorium. It was first studied in the early 1950s by Derek J. Price, and was formerly...
description of the construction of a solar (as opposed to planetary) equatorium is contained in Proclus's 5th century work Hypotyposis, where he gives...
measurements used for navigation. He developed key technologies including the equatorium and universal latitude-independent astrolabe. Avempace (died 1138), a...
constructed calculation devices: a torquetum, the Rectangulus, and an equatorium, which he called Albion. The Albion could be used for astronomical calculations...
on Broad Street. His equatorium drew on earlier designs such as that by Jean de Lignières, and is somewhat similar to an equatorium that survives in the...
LEP at CERN – the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or the Equatorium, a post-Copernican planetary calculator made to special order in the early...
of a number of instruments he created, including the Albion, a form of equatorium, and a famously complicated and expensive horologium (astronomical clock)...
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