The Nautical Encyclopedia
Patterson’s Illustrated Nautical Encyclopedia — Howard Patterson, 1891

Celestial Sphere

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The view of a spectator on the earth is bounded by the heavens and the horizon and this is known as the visible hemisphere. This together with the invisible hemisphere below the horizon, constitutes what is variously called the heavens, the celestial sphere, and the celestial concave.

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