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    In astronomy, a planisphere (/ˈpleɪ.nɪˌsfɪər, ˈplæn.ɪ-/) is a star chart analog computing instrument in the form of two adjustable disks that rotate on...
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    Title Details Peak chart positions BEL (WA) Planisphère Released: 8 July 2008 Label: Dior Homme S/S 09 Music Format: Vinyl, digital download 76...
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    The Cantino planisphere or Cantino world map is a manuscript Portuguese world map preserved at the Biblioteca Estense in Modena, Italy. It is named after...
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    "BnF : Planisphère de Domingos Teixeira 1573". Tierra de Fuego, antes «Isla de Xativa» Wikimedia Commons has media related to Teixeira planisphere. Gallica...
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  • historical name for star chart Planisphere, a historical name for world map (see also History of cartography) Planisphère, a 2008 tetrology of songs by...
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    The Salviati Planisphere is a world map showing the Spanish view of the Earth's surface at the time of the map's creation, c. 1525, and includes the eastern...
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    physique (1695) Tabulae astronomicae (in Latin). Paris: Jean Boudot. 1702. Planisphère céleste (1705) "Des conchoïdes en général". In: Histoire de l'Académie...
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    Atlas (1375) Early Modern age Map of Juan de la Cosa (1500) Cantino planisphere (1502) Cosmographia (Sebastian Münster) (1544) Contemporary age Cassini...
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  • Planisphere is a 2009 poetry collection by the American writer John Ashbery. It consists of 99 alphabetically sequenced poems. The book was reviewed in...
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    areas, but the rhumb lines on small-scale maps such as the Teixeira planisphere were highly inaccurate. The grid can be easily spotted (as parchment...
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    measurement were constructed for astronomical and navigation use. The planisphere was a star chart invented by Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī in the early 11th century...
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    The Cantino planisphere (1502), the earliest world map detailing Portuguese maritime exploration...
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    Cantino planisphere, 1502, earliest chart showing explorations by Vasco da Gama, Columbus and Cabral...
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    罕见的古代星象图现身[图文]. Astro.lady.qq.com. Retrieved on December 2, 2011. "Chinese planisphere with pamphlet, 1819". Science Museum London. Retrieved May 11, 2020....
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    Astronomical Chart on Chinese planispheres was prepared in 1193 for instructing the crown prince on astronomical findings. The planispheres were engraved in stone...
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    September or on 13 September 1502 it is usually assumed that the Cantino planisphere, completed by the following November, includes his discovery of Ascension...
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    like Daft Punk did for Louis Vuitton in 2007. The track, now known as Planisphère, was released in four parts on the band's MySpace page. It was later...
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    third armada had already reached India. Second, the Portuguese Cantino Planisphere, completed in 1502 after the third armada returned, shows the newly sighted...
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    Greenland and Newfoundland. Both explorations are noted in the 1502 Cantino planisphere. In 1497, newly crowned King Manuel I of Portugal sent an exploratory...
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  • with a raised fist." The IAU Style Manual (PDF). 1989. p. 27. "plaque; planisphère de Bianchini". Paris: Louvre. Retrieved 2022-07-23. Jones, Alexander...
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    harmony. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9781315168166. OCLC 1045650307. BnF : Planisphère de Domingos Teixeira 1573 Muhammad Bello, Infaq 'l-Maysuur, chapter 7...
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    Mercator Planisphere by A.-H. Brué (1816), showing Océanie, the Grand Océan and Polynésie including all the islands of the Pacific Ocean...
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    Ercole I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, by Alberto Cantino in 1502. The Cantino planisphere, made in Lisbon, accurately depicts the southern coastline of Greenland...
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  • represent the gods associated with the classical planets. Bianchini's planisphere, produced in the 2nd century, shows Greek personifications of planetary...
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    thousands to a thousand years to a few hundred, and whether the zodiac was a planisphere or an astrological chart. Sébastien Louis Saulnier, an antique dealer...
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    surviving map of the Portuguese discoveries dated 1502 called the Cantino planisphere, it is generally accepted that Arab sailors first discovered the uninhabited...
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    Sidoli, Nathan; Berggren, J.L. (2007). "The Arabic version of Ptolemy's planisphere or flattening the surface of the sphere: Text, translation, commentary"...
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    particular purpose. Tools using a star chart include the astrolabe and planisphere. A variety of archaeological sites and artifacts found are thought to...
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    Top left, the shores of Florida and the future Carolina explored in 1500 and showed in 1502 on the Cantino planisphere...
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    Atlas (1375) Early Modern age Map of Juan de la Cosa (1500) Cantino planisphere (1502) Cosmographia (Sebastian Münster) (1544) Contemporary age Cassini...
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