| 1 | People could observe the movement of the sun, moon and stars. | |
| 2 | The dragon has appeared on Chinese artifacts throughout the ages. This is the model of a fake Sung armillary sphere on display in the Taichung Natural Science Museum. | |
| 3 | Liang was a palace scholar in Kaiyuan era, Tang Dynasty. He has invented the armillary sphere in cooperation with bonze Yixing. He was both a scholar and an artist. | |
| 4 | Portugal's flag has a red and a green stripe, and at their meeting point is an armillary sphere positioned underneath the Portuguese shield. | |
| 5 | Zhang Heng also made the first water-driven celestial globe in the world to measure the position of celestial bodies, which was carved with known important astronomical phenomena. |
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