In humiliating contrast, one of China's few tangible rewards involved the set of Qing-dynasty instruments for observing the heavens among them a Jesuit-designed quadrant, celestial globe and armilla mentioned above. |
The Armilla Patrol, which started in 1980, is the navy's primary commitment the Gulf region. |
The procession moved slowly forward, and paused at the village of armilla, at the distance of half a league from the city. |
Armilla increases the contact surface of the droplets and the retention of active ingredients on the foliage. |
The first was an equinoctial, the second a solstitial armilla. |
After travelling 920k from Barcelona to Grenada the duo took part in a 10k special outside Granada, and also faced a dirt track in Armilla. |