A device for represent the positions and aspects of the celestial bodies of the solar system with respect to the zodiac, and the earth

摘要

The invention relates to a device which, in the form of a clock, makes it possible: - to represent the positions and aspects of the stars of the solar system with respect to the zodiac and to Earth; - to measure the relative positions of the stars; - to display the phase of illumination of the Moon. It consists of a disc 1 on which are printed the zodiac and scales which serve in the referencing of the hands 5 and 7 which rotate about the spindle 2 as well as the discs 3, 4, 6, 8. The small hand 7 represents the sun and rotates thereby driving, with the aid of a removable attachment 37, the disc 4 on which are printed the phases of illumination of the Moon which appear through a window made in the large hand 5 representing the Moon. Moving studs 9 fixed to the disc 1 and symbolising the other planets of the solar system enable their positions to be displayed. The transparent disc 6, engraved like a protractor, enables the angles formed between the planets to be measured. On the disc 8, symbolising the Earth, is printed an arrow forming a seconds hand giving the southerly orientation and a graduated scale which, by referencing with the hand 7, enables the disc 8 to be oriented as a function of solar time. IMAGE