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Anne Boleyn’s badges and mottoes

We know that Anne Boleyn’s heraldic badge was a Falcon, but she had also other badges that she used before she adopted a falcon.

Let’s start with first one :

‘Within this inscription, between ‘je’ and ‘anne’, Anne inserted a small drawing; on close examination this turns out to be an armillary sphere. Evidently this was a device Anne adopted before switching to the falcon on the roses[1]  / Eric Ives, p.240/

What does armillary sphere mean? Professor Ives states that:

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