Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An ancient astronomical instrument consisting of a ring fixed in the plane of the equator, sometimes crossed at right angles by another ring fixed in the plane of the meridian.
- noun armilla, 1.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A bracelet.
- noun An ancient astronomical instrument.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
bracelet . - noun obsolete An
ancient astronomical instrument , having either onering placed in theplane of theequator for determining the time of theequinoxes (an equinoctial armil) or two or more rings, one in the plane of themeridian , for observing thesolstices (a solstitial armil).
Etymologies
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Latin armilla ("a bracelet").
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"Receive this armil as a token of the divine mercy embracing thee on every side [32]."
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From the use of the gnomon there naturally grew up the conception of angular measurements; and with the advance of geometrical conceptions there came the hemisphere of Berosus, the equinoctial armil, the solstitial armil, and the quadrant of Ptolemy -- all of them employing shadows as indices of the sun's position, but in combination with angular divisions.
Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library Herbert Spencer 1861
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