I've tagged most, if not all, of the instruments and whatnot on Patchy's table. I can't see the planetarium, though; that thing in the background that looks a bit like one is just the traverse mechanism for the telescope.
The telescope looks a lot like the 40-inch refractor telescope at Yerkes Observatory or the 36-inch refractor telescope at Lick Observatory, two of the largest refracting telescopes ever made. Both telescopes were made by the same company so the tube and support structure look very similar.
Great picture, but its composition is brimming with things.
I like that she has an orrery and an armillary sphere, even though they express completely incompatible cosmological concepts. And that evidently in Gensokyo, the constellations of the zodiac include Remilia (the Great Vampire), Flandre (the Destroyer), and Kaguya (the Lazy Princess). :)
I like that she has an orrery and an armillary sphere, even though they express completely incompatible cosmological concepts. And that evidently in Gensokyo, the constellations of the zodiac include Remilia (the Great Vampire), Flandre (the Destroyer), and Kaguya (the Lazy Princess). :)
As long as the orrery and armillary sphere correctly model the observed motions of the displayed celestial bodies, it should be possible to convert between the two with just a simple coordinate transformation. Tycho Brahe was of the geocentric school of thought, but his model (based on his copious observations) was mathematically equivalent to the Copernican model; it basically had a reference frame that was fixed to the Earth's surface instead of the Sun. Obviously gravity in that model would be distorted by the same coordinate transformation (with the Sun going around the Earth every day), but this was about a century before Newton worked that stuff out.
My Mandarin isn't very good, but I can read the second half of the title and get the reference in the commentary itself. As for the first half... rhubarb-painted girl astrologer? What? Is there some reference I'm not getting?
My Mandarin isn't very good, but I can read the second half of the title and get the reference in the commentary itself. As for the first half... rhubarb-painted girl astrologer? What? Is there some reference I'm not getting?
I think it's just the author's name. Please correct me if I'm mistaken.
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