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Definition of Tellurion
1. Noun. An instrument used to show how the rotation of the Earth on its axis and its orbit around the Sun cause day and night and the seasons. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tellurion
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tellurion
Literary usage of Tellurion
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Manuscripts Relating to the County of Nottingham in the Possession of Mr by John Thomas Godfrey, James Ward (1900)
"The Horizontal tellurion is 3 in. too big for the opening. The Vertical tellurion
just fits, but the worst of all is there is no room behind the Scenes. ..."
2. The Magazine of Science, and Schools of Art (1842)
"HORIZONTAL tellurion. ALL who have witnessed the splendid apparatus used by Messrs.
Adams, Wallis, Howell, and other lecturers on astronomical science, ..."
3. Register of Arts, and Journal of Patent Inventions edited by Luke Herbert (1826)
"The cause of the seasons, and the variation in the length of the days and nights,
were clearly exemplified, first by a horizontal tellurion, ..."
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