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Definition of Planispheres
1. planisphere [n] - See also: planisphere
Lexicographical Neighbors of Planispheres
Literary usage of Planispheres
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific by Astronomical Society of the Pacific (1893)
"Recently two new planispheres have been issued in this country, one by The Register
Publishing Company, Ann Arbor, Mich., and the other by POOLE Bros., ..."
2. Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) (1862)
"THE Chevalier Ignazio Villa submitted seven planispheres to the Society, accompanied
by a printed description, from which the following is extracted :— No. ..."
3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1863)
"On some Improved Celestial planispheres. By CJ VILLA. LIGHT AND HEAT. On the
Means of following the Small Divisions of the Scale regulating the Distances ..."
4. The Biographical Dictionary of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful (1843)
"It is an attempt to reduce astronomical computation to mechanical work, by means
of those re- VOL. m. volving paper planispheres which have only lasted to ..."
5. A Dictionary of Mechanical Science, Arts, Manufactures, and Miscellaneous by Alexander Jamieson (1829)
"... planispheres, it is called the Equinoctial Line, or »imply the Line. And since
every point of the equator is equally ..."
6. Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1851)
"The principal use of the projection of the sphere is in the construction of
planispheres, maps and charts, which are said to be of this or that projection, ..."
7. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific by Astronomical Society of the Pacific (1893)
"Recently two new planispheres have been issued in this country, one by The Register
Publishing Company, Ann Arbor, Mich., and the other by POOLE Bros., ..."
8. Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) (1862)
"THE Chevalier Ignazio Villa submitted seven planispheres to the Society, accompanied
by a printed description, from which the following is extracted :— No. ..."
9. Report of the Annual Meeting (1863)
"On some Improved Celestial planispheres. By CJ VILLA. LIGHT AND HEAT. On the
Means of following the Small Divisions of the Scale regulating the Distances ..."
10. The Biographical Dictionary of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful (1843)
"It is an attempt to reduce astronomical computation to mechanical work, by means
of those re- VOL. m. volving paper planispheres which have only lasted to ..."
11. A Dictionary of Mechanical Science, Arts, Manufactures, and Miscellaneous by Alexander Jamieson (1829)
"... planispheres, it is called the Equinoctial Line, or »imply the Line. And since
every point of the equator is equally ..."
12. Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1851)
"The principal use of the projection of the sphere is in the construction of
planispheres, maps and charts, which are said to be of this or that projection, ..."
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