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<p>[QUOTE="GinoLR, post: 8145567, member: 128351"]Yes, this one is puzzling. Maybe it's one for which the celator confused or mixed the terrestrial and the celestial globe. Roman celators or painters were never comfortable with depictions of spheres. For example on Augustus denarii there is a capricorn holding a celestial sphere with parallels and meridians, but it is often blundered on the coins: </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1420457[/ATTACH] </p><p>... and even on frescoes. See this Pompeii painting of Urania (her name means Celestial) muse of astronomy :</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1420461[/ATTACH] Artists were uncomfortable with spheres, and could very easily represent them rather awkwardly. A well-represented celestial globe, with the equator and the oblique zodiacal belt, from Pompeii, is here :</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1420472[/ATTACH] </p><p>and here :</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1420477[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GinoLR, post: 8145567, member: 128351"]Yes, this one is puzzling. Maybe it's one for which the celator confused or mixed the terrestrial and the celestial globe. Roman celators or painters were never comfortable with depictions of spheres. For example on Augustus denarii there is a capricorn holding a celestial sphere with parallels and meridians, but it is often blundered on the coins: [ATTACH=full]1420457[/ATTACH] ... and even on frescoes. See this Pompeii painting of Urania (her name means Celestial) muse of astronomy : [ATTACH=full]1420461[/ATTACH] Artists were uncomfortable with spheres, and could very easily represent them rather awkwardly. A well-represented celestial globe, with the equator and the oblique zodiacal belt, from Pompeii, is here : [ATTACH=full]1420472[/ATTACH] and here : [ATTACH=full]1420477[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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