The excited shriek ‘Eureka’ is the first thing that comes to our mind when we think of Archimedes. Archimedes was one man with many thoughts and curiosities. He made significant contributions in the study of astronomy as well.
Archimedes designed a mechanical planetarium. Much of what we know about this mechanical planetarium comes from Cicero’s writings. This device could calculate the motions of the Moon and other objects in the Solar System, including eclipses. It demonstrated the daily movements of the Moon and five other planets. Archimedes designed this mechanical universe in a glass globe.
The glass sphere representing the universe contained the motions of the stars around the Earth, the eclipses of the Sun and Moon, and their movements along the elliptic path.
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