A huge armillary sphere glinted in the far corner.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dragons of Krynn]

Another was the armillary sphere, as pictured above.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Art of Chinese Astronomical Technology] Reference

An armillary commands attention at the center of a knot garden.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Shakespeare in Bloom' Saturday] Reference

In 1088, Su Song 苏颂 built a massive water-driven armillary sphere.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Art of Chinese Astronomical Technology] Reference

And suddenly there it was: the Sarah Rittenhouse armillary, a sundial of sorts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantis Prophecy] Reference

Mirrors and armillary spheres, too, were highly valued and prominently displayed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro] Reference

They have replicas of the armillary spheres also at the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ancient Observatory, Beijing] Reference

The red dot—the GPS tracker—was still stationary, still blinking next to the armillary.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantis Prophecy] Reference

Those are armillary spheres on the top—I know because I did a book report on it in fifth grade.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aching for Always] Reference

He made an armillary sphere -- a primitive planetarium -- to explore the movements of the planets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nancy Marie Brown: The Abacus and The Cross: When the Pope Was A Scientist] Reference

The armillary, he realized, staring at the image of the sun dial-like sphere on its marble pedestal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantis Prophecy] Reference

The armillary sphere 浑仪 is ancient, and that's why you often see it in wizards offices in movies.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Art of Chinese Astronomical Technology] Reference

She started walking briskly away from the armillary, where they might be seen if they stood together too long.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantis Prophecy] Reference

The second globe that Brooke had told him about, the one Yeats was after now, could be buried beneath the armillary!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantis Prophecy] Reference

Architectural Forum called it "a heavy, literal version of the ancient armillary sphere, with decoration by Rand McNally.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Icon of a Fair, a Borough, the World] Reference

Typically, the Archontic framework of the planetary system has been depicted by "armillary bands" that surround the Earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nazism, Manipulative Extraterrestrials, and Alternative Realities] Reference

Guo Shoujing managed to create a new form of equatorial armillary sphere, a sort of disassembled one, the equatorial torquetum.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Art of Chinese Astronomical Technology] Reference

The armillary sphere at the Beijing Ancient Observatory is based on the drawings from the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe and brought to China via the Jesuits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tycho Brahe in Beijing] Reference

For an illuminating discussion of the astrolabe and armillary sphere in the Urbino studiolo, their uses and significance, see David King, "Astrolabe Depicted.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro] Reference

The "armillary sphere" would be a rigid skeletal orb, 160 feet in diameter, upon which the continents and "principal islands" of the world would be superimposed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Icon of a Fair, a Borough, the World] Reference

Eleven hooks in the cabinets support a dagger, a scopetta (whisk broom), Federico's armor (occupying five hooks), an astrolabe, an armillary sphere, a tablet, and a birdcage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro] Reference

A moveable armillary sphere, three cubits in diameter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Martyrs of Science, or, The lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler] Reference

I consider the armillary sphere a clumsy disproportioned bit of apparatus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Emile] Reference

An armillary sphere of brass, with a steel meridian, whose diameter was about 4 cubits.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Martyrs of Science, or, The lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler] Reference

The province of the armillary sphere was to make these measurements extremely accurate.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume I: The Beginnings of Science] Reference

And in a later letter he speaks "of the armillary spheres drawn by our common friend Albert Dürer.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Albert Durer] Reference

A striking example is the huge armillary sphere by the sixteenth-century astronomer Antonio Santucci.    From Wordnik.com.  [Naturejobs - All Jobs] Reference

Antonio Santucci's great armillary sphere reveals how patrons sought immortality through science, explains Martin Kemp.    From Wordnik.com.  [Naturejobs - All Jobs] Reference

Tycho Brahe (1546-1601 A.D.) made great improvements in armillary spheres, quadrants, sextants, and large celestial globes.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Astronomy] Reference

The sundials, astrolabes, armillary and celestial spheres and other devices on display are extraordinarily beautiful objects.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Scientist - Space] Reference

IF CONRAD had his way, right now he’d be digging for the second globe beneath the Sarah Rittenhouse armillary in Montrose Park.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantis Prophecy] Reference

He stared at the celestial armillary.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantis Prophecy] Reference

“She must be under the armillary,” he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantis Prophecy] Reference

Astrolabe and armillary sphere, Urbino studiolo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro] Reference

Her quadrant and armillary dials, black.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aurora Leigh] Reference

Circles in azimuth, armillary spheres.    From Wordnik.com.  [Watchers of the Sky] Reference