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Through its ingenious system of geared mechanisms, rotating arms, and oil-lamp accessories, the device dynamically demonstrates heliocentric principles, diurnal cycles, seasonal variations, and eclipse phenomena through projected light effects. Blending didactic functionality with exceptional craftsmanship, it stands as a paradigmatic example of late Georgian scientific instrumentation &#8211; where mechanical precision met astronomical pedagogy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u592a\u967d\u7cfb\u5100\u3001\u5730\u6708\u5100 \u592a\u967d\u7cfb\u5100\u3001\u5730\u6708\u5100\u9ec3\u9285\u938f\u91d1\u3001\u6843\u82b1\u5fc3\u6728\u5a01\u5ec9\u00b7\u74ca\u65af\u7d041815\u5e74 \u3000\u3000\u9019\u5957\u7cbe\u5de7\u7684\u8907\u5408\u5100\u5668\u51fa\u81ea18\u20141 [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":925,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-995","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ptolemymuseum.org.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ptolemymuseum.org.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ptolemymuseum.org.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ptolemymuseum.org.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ptolemymuseum.org.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=995"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.ptolemymuseum.org.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1147,"href":"https:\/\/www.ptolemymuseum.org.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/995\/revisions\/1147"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ptolemymuseum.org.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ptolemymuseum.org.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}