Lexicographical Neighbors of Armils
Literary usage of Armils
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the Inductive Sciences from the Earliest to the Present Time by William Whewell (1859)
"The armils of Alexandria were divided into no parts smaller than sixths of degrees,
or divisions of 10 minutes. The angles, observed by means of these ..."
2. History of the Inductive Sciences from the Earliest to the Present Time by William Whewell (1857)
"... quitted equatorial armils for the astrolabe, which immediately refers the
stars to the ecliptic. He probably did this because, after the discovery of ..."
3. History of the Moorish Empire in Europe by Samuel Parsons Scott (1904)
"... solstitial and equinoctial armils, were placed upon the minarets of the most
sacred temples. The calculations of the observer were completed in the ..."
4. Cosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe by Alexander von Humboldt (1860)
"... to the invention of astrolabes, solstitial armils, and linear dioptrics.
It was thus that man, and step by step as it were, * Ideler, Handbuch der ..."
5. Bible Myths and Their Parallels in Other Religions: Being a Comparison of by Thomas William Doane (1882)
"There was also an astronomical observatory, containing armillary spheres, globes,
solstitial and equatorial armils, astrolabes, parallactic rules, ..."
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