英语词汇“astronomical rotula”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

2. Astronomy. A mechanical device showing the motion of the sun and moon and their position for each day of the year. More fully astronomical rotula. Now historical.The astronomical rotula was devised by the Scottish inventor James Ferguson (1710–76).

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1746 J. Ferguson Use of New Orrery Advt. sig. A1^v The Astronomical Rotula, shewing the Place of the Sun, Moon and Moon's Nodes in the Ecliptic..every Day in the Year.

1833 T. Dick On Improvem. Society v. 182 Mr. Ferguson, the inventor of several orreries, the astronomical rotula, the eclipsarian,..and other astronomical machinery, had, from his earliest years, devoted the greatest part of his time to the study of mechanics.

1883 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 258 Rotulas, orreries, dials, everything he could think of, his patient hands elaborated.

1932 Jrnl. Sci. Instruments 9 147 Other orreries and tidal rotulas followed: some of them very complicated.

2000 Notes & Rec. Royal Soc. 54 38 The rotula eventually went through several impressions until the year 1752, when the reform of the calendar made it useless.

单词	astronomical rotula
释义	> as lemmas astronomical rotula astronomical rotula n. see rotula n. 2. extracted from astronomicaladj.n. astronomical rotula 2. Astronomy. A mechanical device showing the motion of the sun and moon and their position for each day of the year. More fully astronomical rotula. Now historical.The astronomical rotula was devised by the Scottish inventor James Ferguson (1710–76). ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > cosmology > science of observation > astronomical instruments > sun and moon > [noun] lunary14.. rotula1746 lunarium1786 1746 J. Ferguson Use of New Orrery Advt. sig. A1^v The Astronomical Rotula, shewing the Place of the Sun, Moon and Moon's Nodes in the Ecliptic..every Day in the Year. 1833 T. Dick On Improvem. Society v. 182 Mr. Ferguson, the inventor of several orreries, the astronomical rotula, the eclipsarian,..and other astronomical machinery, had, from his earliest years, devoted the greatest part of his time to the study of mechanics. 1883 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 258 Rotulas, orreries, dials, everything he could think of, his patient hands elaborated. 1932 Jrnl. Sci. Instruments 9 147 Other orreries and tidal rotulas followed: some of them very complicated. 2000 Notes & Rec. Royal Soc. 54 38 The rotula eventually went through several impressions until the year 1752, when the reform of the calendar made it useless. extracted from rotulan. < as lemmas
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