What is "celestial globe"

Usage examples of "celestial globe".

Then, farther south and farthest away from the North Pole, lay the Way of Ea - that part of Earth and of the celestial globe that lay between 30 degrees south and the South Pole.

Mice skittered in the walls behind the open cupboard where the magi stored their ap-parati: an astrolabe packed in velvet in a rosewood case, an armillary sphere that showed the motions of the heavens, a celestial globe with the stars marked out as pinpricks of silvery paint.

He was the first person in Greece to make a sundial, a map of the known world and a celestial globe that showed the patterns of the constellations.

In an apartment of the great temple of Denderah, some fifty years ago, there was discovered upon the granite ceiling a sculptured and painted planisphere, abounding in centaurs, griffins, and dolphins, similar to the grotesque figures on the celestial globe of the moderns.

Urania was the Muse of Astronomy and her attributes were the celestial globe and a compass.

He made the third of his students identify Weald in the celestial globe containing hundreds of millions of stars, and get on course in overdrive toward it.

More starlight is coming to us from one region of the celestial globe than from its antipodes.

A celestial globe was heaped on top of a japanned chest of drawers.

The Indian took us along an uncarpeted corridor, with a polished boarded floor, and then into an ante-room, sparsely furnished with English-looking antiques and a broken celestial globe.

The celestial globe reflected tiny splotches of fire which must be earthshaking explosions.