The Armillary
Introduction
The photograph on this page of The Armillary by Nigel Mykura as part of the Geograph project.
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The Armillary
Image: © Nigel Mykura Taken: 16 Apr 2012
This £100,000 pound sculpture on the roundabout where the A422 meets the A4390 on the Banbury Road is by Mick Thacker and it has been creating quite a stir since it was erected in 2007. An armillary sphere is a model of the earth and the space around it with the rings representing imaginary planes and lines which are used in astronomy and navigation. This is a simplified representation as it has several important lines missing, such as the tropics of cancer and capricorn. The partial circle with the solid white line on it is the celestial equator
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Image Location
Latitude
52.180678
Longitude
-1.683468