Have we at last found the missing Meridian Hill Park armillary sphere? No, I'm afraid not. But after my recent column on the handsome bronze armillary sphere that once graced the park on 16th Street ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. In this picture, we can see two scholars seated beneath a grand structure called an armillary sphere. An armillary ...

I’m a historical landscape architect and have been very curious about the fate of the Noyes armillary sphere in Meridian Hill Park. The sculpture, by C. Paul Jennewein, was a significant piece of ...

Christopher Howse has spent two years visiting high streets all over England. He comments on uses and abuses of the English language and writes a weekly column on the human face of religion in history ...

A photo of a ring has recently gone viral on social media and the internet is all hearts. The 16th century ring appears to be like an astronomical web with various other rings fitted into it. This is ...

This magnificent armillary sphere stands in the centre of the museum's top gallery. It was designed to show a model of the universe according the ancient astronomer, Claudius Ptolemy, with the Earth ...