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Armillary  adj.  Pertaining to, or resembling, a bracelet or ring; consisting of rings or circles.
Armillary sphere, an ancient astronomical machine composed of an assemblage of rings, all circles of the same sphere, designed to represent the positions of the important circles of the celestial sphere.






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... Duerer then met for the first time too the Imperial architect, Johannes Tscherte, for whom he afterwards drew two armillary spheres, to take the place of those on which he had cast ridicule; for Pirkheimer wrote to Tscherte: "I wish you could have heard how Albert Duerer spoke to me about your plate, in which there is not one good stroke, and laughed at me. What ...
— Albert Durer • T. Sturge Moore



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