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Armillary sphere with astronomical clock made by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Joost_B%C3%BCrgi" class="extiw" title="w:en:Joost Bürgi">Joost Bürgi</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/de:Antonius_Eisenhoit" class="extiw" title="w:de:Antonius Eisenhoit">Antonius Eisenhoit</a>, Kassel, 1585. Constructed from bronze, steel and ebony. The sphere was looted from Prague by Swedish forces in 1648 and is currently the property of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Nordiska_Museet" class="extiw" title="w:en:Nordiska Museet">Nordiska Museet</a> in <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stockholm" title="Stockholm">Stockholm</a>. Note says: "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Johannes_Kepler" class="extiw" title="w:en:Johannes Kepler">Johannes Kepler</a> studied the stars with the help of this armillary sphere".

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15:06, 9 January 2017No thumbnail (0 bytes)127.0.0.1 (talk)Armillary sphere with astronomical clock made by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Joost_B%C3%BCrgi" class="extiw" title="w:en:Joost Bürgi">Joost Bürgi</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/de:Antonius_Eisenhoit" class="extiw" title="w:de:Antonius Eisenhoit">Antonius Eisenhoit</a>, Kassel, 1585. Constructed from bronze, steel and ebony. The sphere was looted from Prague by Swedish forces in 1648 and is currently the property of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Nordiska_Museet" class="extiw" title="w:en:Nordiska Museet">Nordiska Museet</a> in <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stockholm" title="Stockholm">Stockholm</a>. Note says: "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Johannes_Kepler" class="extiw" title="w:en:Johannes Kepler">Johannes Kepler</a> studied the stars with the help of this armillary sphere".
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