Armillary sphere

Georg von Peuerbach, Theoricarum novarum textus Georgii Purbachii … (Paris, 1515)
Norton.b.14

A personification of Astronomy with a large armillary sphere, a model of the cosmos. Sir Nicholas Bacon (1510–1579), Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, gave a large brass sphere to the University in 1584–85 and this was most likely an armillary sphere.

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