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- Celestial globes
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- Globes, Celestial
- Globes, Star
- Star globes
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- found: Glossary of mapping, charting,and geodetic terms, 1973:(celestial sphere: an imaginary sphere of infinite radius, described about an assumed center, and upon which imagined positions of celestial bodies are projected along radii passing through the bodies; for observations on bodies within the limits of the solar system, the assumed center is the center of the earth; for bodies where the parallax is negligible, the assumed center may be the point of observation)
- found: Glossary of the mapping sciences, 1994:globes, celestial (a sphere on which the locations and brightness of stars and other celestial bodies are shown by symbols. The outlines or boundaries of constellations usually are shown also)
- found: LCSH, Jan. 8, 2009:(hdg.: Celestial globes)
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- 2011-05-05: new
- 2011-05-18: revised
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