hemispheren.

/ˈhɛmɪsfɪə/

Forms: α. Middle English hemy-, hemi-, -sperie, -ye, Middle English–1500s emy-, emi-, ( eme)sperie, -ry, 1500s hemispherie, hemispherye. β. Middle English h)emyspere, 1500s emispere, hemispher, 1500s–1600s hemisphære, 1600s–1700s hemisphear(e, 1500s– hemisphere.

Etymology: In form hemispherie , etc., < late Latin hēmisphærium , < Greek ἡμισϕαίριον , < ἡμι- hemi- prefix + σϕαῖρα sphere n.; in form hemisphere, through Old French emispere, -sphere (13–14th cent.), modern French hémisphère.

a. generally. A half sphere; one of the halves of a sphere or globe formed by a plane passing through the centre.

ΘΠ

the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > [noun] > sphericity or globularity > sphere > hemisphere

hemisphere1585

semisphere1659

half-round1718

semi-globe1748

demi-globe1799

1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie ii. xviii. 51 Al made of very cleare glasse..in forme of a rounde Hemisphere.

1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 11 In one of our Critical Observations, I could see more then a hemisphere of the eye at once.

1796 C. Hutton Math. & Philos. Dict. (at cited word) The centre of gravity of a Hemisphere, is five-eighths of the radius distant from the vertex.

1830 M. Donovan Domest. Econ. II. vii. 331 A hemisphere of the cocoa-nut shell is used as a lamp to burn its own oil.

1895 N. Story-Maskelyne Crystallogr. §325 The sphere of projection is divided into hemispheres by a single symmetral plane.

b. Magdeburg hemispheres, a contrivance invented by Otto von Guericke of Magdeburg to demonstrate the pressure of the air.It consists of two strong hollow nicely-fitting brass hemispheres, each of which is furnished with a handle, and one with a cock to be adjusted to an air-pump. When they are fitted together and the air has been exhausted, great force is required to separate them.

ΘΠ

the world > matter > gas > air > [noun] > air-pressure > device for illustrating

Torricellian tube1660

Magdeburg hemispheres1815

bladder-glass1854

1815 in C. Hutton Math. & Philos. Dict.

1858 D. Lardner Hand-bk. Nat. Philos.: Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, & Heat (new ed.) 179 Two of the strongest men will be unable to tear the hemispheres asunder, provided they are of a moderate magnitude, owing to the amount of the pressure with which they are held together.

2. spec. Half of the celestial sphere; in early quots., esp. that half of the heavens seen above the horizon, the sky above us; in Astronomy, usually, one of the halves into which the celestial globe is divided by the equinoctial or by the ecliptic. (The earliest sense in English.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > the universe > sky, heavens > [noun]

roofeOE

welkinc825

heaveneOE

heightOE

heavenOE

liftOE

loftOE

welkin1122

skies?a1289

firmamentc1290

skewa1300

spherea1300

skewsc1320

hemispherec1374

cope of heavenc1380

clouda1400

skya1425

elementc1485

axle-treea1522

scrowc1540

pole1572

horizona1577

vaulta1586

round?1593

the cope1596

pend1599

floor1600

canopy1604

cope1609

expansion1611

concameration1625

convex1627

concave1635

expansum1635

blue1647

the expanse1667

blue blanket1726

empyrean1727

carry1788

span1803

overhead1865

α.

c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Harl.) iii. 1390 (1439) Ther god..Þe for thyn haste..So fast ay to our hemysperie [v.rr. emesperie, hemy-spere] bynde!

c1400 ( G. Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe (Cambr. Dd.3.53) (1872) i. §18. 11 The cercle þat deuydeth the two Emysperies, þat is, the partie of the heuene a-boue the Erthe & the partie be-nethe.

c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xx. 90 We schuld hafe sene all þe roundeness of þe firmament, þat es to say bathe þe emisperies, þe vppermare and þe nedermare.

1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy i. v With the brightnes of his beames merye For to reioyse all our Hemisperie.

1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure i. x When cleare Dyana..Gan for to ryse, lightyng our emispery.

β. [c1374 [see α. ]. ]a1532 J. Lydgate Goodly Ballad 27 in W. W. Skeat Chaucerian & Other Pieces (1897) 406 The rude night, that..shadoweth our emispere [rhyme dere].c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 30 The sternis & planetis..durst nocht be sene, in oure hemispere.1604 R. Cawdrey Table Alphabet. Hemisphere, halfe of the compasse of heauen, that we see.1607 J. Davies Summa Totalis sig. D2^v Fal'n to rest beneath our Hemyspheare.1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Shepherd The Sun keeps on the Left Hand of the Hemisphear.1892 R. S. Ball In Starry Realms xxi. 304 The number of stars in the northern hemisphere alone is upwards of three hundred thousand. We may assume that the southern hemisphere has an equally numerous star-population.

a. Either of the halves of the terrestrial globe, esp. as divided by the equator (i.e. the Northern Hemisphere and Southern Hemisphere). Also the halves containing Europe, Asia, and Africa (Eastern Hemisphere), and America (Western Hemisphere), respectively.

ΘΠ

the world > the earth > region of the earth > hemisphere > [noun]

hemisphere1555

α.

1555 R. Eden in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde Pref. sig. aiiij Neyther dydde any..trauerse the Equinoctial line to thinferiour hemispherie or halfe globe of the earthe and sea.

1556 R. Record Castle of Knowl. 280 No generall eclipse, whiche should extende to all the worlde, namely for that hemispherye.

1561 R. Eden tr. M. Cortés Arte Nauigation i. xiv. sig. B vi^v Also called y^e Hemisphery.

β. 1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 125 A Card, for halfe the face of th' Earth whiche..wyll conveniently serve for our Hemisphere.a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1953) VI. 231 The Western Hemispheare, the land of Gold, and Treasure, and the Eastern Hemispheare, the land of Spices and Perfumes.1633 G. Herbert Sacrifice in Temple vii These drops..A Balsome are for both the Hemispheres.1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vi. vii. 312 The ancient Cosmographers doe place the division of the East and Westerne Hemisphere, that is the first terme of longitude in the Canary or fortunate Islands. 1753 Adventurer No. 99. ⁋9 When Columbus had engaged king Ferdinand in the discovery of the other hemisphere.1833 J. F. W. Herschel Astron. (1858) 186 It is a fact..that London occupies nearly the center of the terrestrial hemisphere.

b. hemisphere of vision, hemisphere of illumination.

1812 R. Woodhouse Elem. Treat. Astron. xxiii. 241 The illuminated hemisphere, called, for distinction, the Hemisphere of Illumination.

1812 R. Woodhouse Elem. Treat. Astron. xxiii. 242 The hemisphere which he sees, called the Hemisphere of Vision.

4. A map or projection of half the terrestrial globe or the celestial globe.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > earth sciences > geography > map-making > map > [noun] > other types of map

mappa mundia1387

mappemondea1393

table1610

Mercator's chart1645

Peutingerian tablea1657

Mercator1694

hemisphere1706

Peutinger1731

road map1741

geological map1798

route map1816

ordnance map1828

outline map1836

contour map1862

index map1869

hypsographical map1881

soil map1898

wheel-map1899

strip map1903

distribution map1947

worm's-eye map1964

topo1970

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) (at cited word) The Maps or Prints of the Heavens pasted on Boards or Cloth are also sometimes call'd Hemispheres, but more commonly Planispheres.

1858 N. Hawthorne Fr. & Ital. Jrnls. (1872) I. 25 There was a map—a hemisphere of the world—which his father had drawn.

5. Anatomy. Each of the halves of the cerebrum of the brain. (See cerebral adj.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > nervous system > cerebrospinal axis > brain > parts of brain > [noun] > cerebrum > hemisphere

hemisphere1804

1804 J. Abernethy Surg. Observ. 188 Inflammation operating probably chiefly on the left hemisphere of the brain.

1831 R. Knox tr. H. Cloquet Syst. Human Anat. (ed. 2) 409 This surface of the brain has been regarded..as formed of several distinct regions, which they have named Lobes, and which occupy the base of the hemispheres.

1846 R. Owen Lect. Compar. Anat. Vertebr. Animals viii. 181 (note) Influenced by the inapplicability of the term ‘hemispheres’ to parts which are more commonly spheres or spheroids.

1873 St. G. Mivart Lessons Elem. Anat. ix. 366 A very deep fissure running from before backwards, and dividing the visible part of the brain into two lateral halves termed hemispheres.

6. transferred and figurative. A realm or region of action, life, or thought; = ‘sphere’. In earlier quots. directly figurative from 2.

ΘΠ

the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > [noun] > business claiming attention > an occupation or affair > affairs > sphere of activity

fieldOE

limitationc1405

hemisphere?1504

ambitudea1525

world1580

orb1598

spherea1616

ambit1649

scene1737

orblet1841

front1917

parish1940

ballpark1963

shtick1965

?1504 S. Hawes Example of Vertu sig. hh.iv It may well glad thyn emyspery.

1608 D. Tuvill Ess. Politicke, & Morall f. 38^v When..the starre of merit shal appear within the compasse of their Hemisphere, and offer presents.

1699 S. Garth Dispensary ii. 16 To Guild, by turns, the Gallick Hemisphear.

1856 P. E. Dove Logic Christian Faith v. i. §2. 265 To surmise the possibility, as beyond the hemisphere of my knowledge.

1863 C. C. Clarke Shakespeare-characters iii. 75 He is a cheering..gleam coming across the dark hemisphere of treachery, mistrust and unkindness.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

单词	hemisphere
释义	hemispheren. /ˈhɛmɪsfɪə/ Forms: α. Middle English hemy-, hemi-, -sperie, -ye, Middle English–1500s emy-, emi-, ( eme)sperie, -ry, 1500s hemispherie, hemispherye. β. Middle English h)emyspere, 1500s emispere, hemispher, 1500s–1600s hemisphære, 1600s–1700s hemisphear(e, 1500s– hemisphere. Etymology: In form hemispherie , etc., < late Latin hēmisphærium , < Greek ἡμισϕαίριον , < ἡμι- hemi- prefix + σϕαῖρα sphere n.; in form hemisphere, through Old French emispere, -sphere (13–14th cent.), modern French hémisphère. 1. a. generally. A half sphere; one of the halves of a sphere or globe formed by a plane passing through the centre. ΘΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > [noun] > sphericity or globularity > sphere > hemisphere hemisphere1585 semisphere1659 half-round1718 semi-globe1748 demi-globe1799 1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie ii. xviii. 51 Al made of very cleare glasse..in forme of a rounde Hemisphere. 1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 11 In one of our Critical Observations, I could see more then a hemisphere of the eye at once. 1796 C. Hutton Math. & Philos. Dict. (at cited word) The centre of gravity of a Hemisphere, is five-eighths of the radius distant from the vertex. 1830 M. Donovan Domest. Econ. II. vii. 331 A hemisphere of the cocoa-nut shell is used as a lamp to burn its own oil. 1895 N. Story-Maskelyne Crystallogr. §325 The sphere of projection is divided into hemispheres by a single symmetral plane. b. Magdeburg hemispheres, a contrivance invented by Otto von Guericke of Magdeburg to demonstrate the pressure of the air.It consists of two strong hollow nicely-fitting brass hemispheres, each of which is furnished with a handle, and one with a cock to be adjusted to an air-pump. When they are fitted together and the air has been exhausted, great force is required to separate them. ΘΠ the world > matter > gas > air > [noun] > air-pressure > device for illustrating Torricellian tube1660 Magdeburg hemispheres1815 bladder-glass1854 1815 in C. Hutton Math. & Philos. Dict. 1858 D. Lardner Hand-bk. Nat. Philos.: Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, & Heat (new ed.) 179 Two of the strongest men will be unable to tear the hemispheres asunder, provided they are of a moderate magnitude, owing to the amount of the pressure with which they are held together. 2. spec. Half of the celestial sphere; in early quots., esp. that half of the heavens seen above the horizon, the sky above us; in Astronomy, usually, one of the halves into which the celestial globe is divided by the equinoctial or by the ecliptic. (The earliest sense in English.) ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > sky, heavens > [noun] roofeOE welkinc825 heaveneOE heightOE heavenOE liftOE loftOE welkin1122 skies?a1289 firmamentc1290 skewa1300 spherea1300 skewsc1320 hemispherec1374 cope of heavenc1380 clouda1400 skya1425 elementc1485 axle-treea1522 scrowc1540 pole1572 horizona1577 vaulta1586 round?1593 the cope1596 pend1599 floor1600 canopy1604 cope1609 expansion1611 concameration1625 convex1627 concave1635 expansum1635 blue1647 the expanse1667 blue blanket1726 empyrean1727 carry1788 span1803 overhead1865 α. c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Harl.) iii. 1390 (1439) Ther god..Þe for thyn haste..So fast ay to our hemysperie [v.rr. emesperie, hemy-spere] bynde! c1400 ( G. Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe (Cambr. Dd.3.53) (1872) i. §18. 11 The cercle þat deuydeth the two Emysperies, þat is, the partie of the heuene a-boue the Erthe & the partie be-nethe. c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xx. 90 We schuld hafe sene all þe roundeness of þe firmament, þat es to say bathe þe emisperies, þe vppermare and þe nedermare. 1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy i. v With the brightnes of his beames merye For to reioyse all our Hemisperie. 1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure i. x When cleare Dyana..Gan for to ryse, lightyng our emispery. β. [c1374 [see α. ]. ]a1532 J. Lydgate Goodly Ballad 27 in W. W. Skeat Chaucerian & Other Pieces (1897) 406 The rude night, that..shadoweth our emispere [rhyme dere].c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 30 The sternis & planetis..durst nocht be sene, in oure hemispere.1604 R. Cawdrey Table Alphabet. Hemisphere, halfe of the compasse of heauen, that we see.1607 J. Davies Summa Totalis sig. D2^v Fal'n to rest beneath our Hemyspheare.1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Shepherd The Sun keeps on the Left Hand of the Hemisphear.1892 R. S. Ball In Starry Realms xxi. 304 The number of stars in the northern hemisphere alone is upwards of three hundred thousand. We may assume that the southern hemisphere has an equally numerous star-population. 3. a. Either of the halves of the terrestrial globe, esp. as divided by the equator (i.e. the Northern Hemisphere and Southern Hemisphere). Also the halves containing Europe, Asia, and Africa (Eastern Hemisphere), and America (Western Hemisphere), respectively. ΘΠ the world > the earth > region of the earth > hemisphere > [noun] hemisphere1555 α. 1555 R. Eden in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde Pref. sig. aiiij Neyther dydde any..trauerse the Equinoctial line to thinferiour hemispherie or halfe globe of the earthe and sea. 1556 R. Record Castle of Knowl. 280 No generall eclipse, whiche should extende to all the worlde, namely for that hemispherye. 1561 R. Eden tr. M. Cortés Arte Nauigation i. xiv. sig. B vi^v Also called y^e Hemisphery. β. 1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 125 A Card, for halfe the face of th' Earth whiche..wyll conveniently serve for our Hemisphere.a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1953) VI. 231 The Western Hemispheare, the land of Gold, and Treasure, and the Eastern Hemispheare, the land of Spices and Perfumes.1633 G. Herbert Sacrifice in Temple vii These drops..A Balsome are for both the Hemispheres.1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vi. vii. 312 The ancient Cosmographers doe place the division of the East and Westerne Hemisphere, that is the first terme of longitude in the Canary or fortunate Islands. View more context for this quotation1753 Adventurer No. 99. ⁋9 When Columbus had engaged king Ferdinand in the discovery of the other hemisphere.1833 J. F. W. Herschel Astron. (1858) 186 It is a fact..that London occupies nearly the center of the terrestrial hemisphere. b. hemisphere of vision, hemisphere of illumination. Π 1812 R. Woodhouse Elem. Treat. Astron. xxiii. 241 The illuminated hemisphere, called, for distinction, the Hemisphere of Illumination. 1812 R. Woodhouse Elem. Treat. Astron. xxiii. 242 The hemisphere which he sees, called the Hemisphere of Vision. 4. A map or projection of half the terrestrial globe or the celestial globe. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > earth sciences > geography > map-making > map > [noun] > other types of map mappa mundia1387 mappemondea1393 table1610 Mercator's chart1645 Peutingerian tablea1657 Mercator1694 hemisphere1706 Peutinger1731 road map1741 geological map1798 route map1816 ordnance map1828 outline map1836 contour map1862 index map1869 hypsographical map1881 soil map1898 wheel-map1899 strip map1903 distribution map1947 worm's-eye map1964 topo1970 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) (at cited word) The Maps or Prints of the Heavens pasted on Boards or Cloth are also sometimes call'd Hemispheres, but more commonly Planispheres. 1858 N. Hawthorne Fr. & Ital. Jrnls. (1872) I. 25 There was a map—a hemisphere of the world—which his father had drawn. 5. Anatomy. Each of the halves of the cerebrum of the brain. (See cerebral adj.) ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > nervous system > cerebrospinal axis > brain > parts of brain > [noun] > cerebrum > hemisphere hemisphere1804 1804 J. Abernethy Surg. Observ. 188 Inflammation operating probably chiefly on the left hemisphere of the brain. 1831 R. Knox tr. H. Cloquet Syst. Human Anat. (ed. 2) 409 This surface of the brain has been regarded..as formed of several distinct regions, which they have named Lobes, and which occupy the base of the hemispheres. 1846 R. Owen Lect. Compar. Anat. Vertebr. Animals viii. 181 (note) Influenced by the inapplicability of the term ‘hemispheres’ to parts which are more commonly spheres or spheroids. 1873 St. G. Mivart Lessons Elem. Anat. ix. 366 A very deep fissure running from before backwards, and dividing the visible part of the brain into two lateral halves termed hemispheres. 6. transferred and figurative. A realm or region of action, life, or thought; = ‘sphere’. In earlier quots. directly figurative from 2. ΘΠ the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > [noun] > business claiming attention > an occupation or affair > affairs > sphere of activity fieldOE limitationc1405 hemisphere?1504 ambitudea1525 world1580 orb1598 spherea1616 ambit1649 scene1737 orblet1841 front1917 parish1940 ballpark1963 shtick1965 ?1504 S. Hawes Example of Vertu sig. hh.iv It may well glad thyn emyspery. 1608 D. Tuvill Ess. Politicke, & Morall f. 38^v When..the starre of merit shal appear within the compasse of their Hemisphere, and offer presents. 1699 S. Garth Dispensary ii. 16 To Guild, by turns, the Gallick Hemisphear. 1856 P. E. Dove Logic Christian Faith v. i. §2. 265 To surmise the possibility, as beyond the hemisphere of my knowledge. 1863 C. C. Clarke Shakespeare-characters iii. 75 He is a cheering..gleam coming across the dark hemisphere of treachery, mistrust and unkindness. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.c1374
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