The horizon ring has eight points on the compass named in French, and the names of eight winds, the cardinal points also having representations of winds blowing from clouds, and a degree scale 0 (at the west) to 90 to 0 to 90 to 0, divided to 10, subdivided to 5 and to 1 with alternate hatching, numbered by 10. The ring is signed 'P. Danfrie. Fec.'

The meridian ring ('MERIDIANVS CIRCVILVS') sits in a support at the base and in slits in the horizon ring and has a degree scale for latitude, divided similarly to that on the horizon ring. A ring is fixed to the meridian ring at the north pole; it is divided into hours, 1 to 12 twice, with an index arm.

The meridian ring has pivots for the equatorial poles of the celestial sphere, which has solstitial ('COLVRVS SOLSTI') and equinoctial ('COLVRVS ?QVINOCTORVM') meridian rings, equator ('?QVINOCTIAL'), tropics, arctic and antarctic circles (all the circles are named in Latin) and a zodiacal band. The meridian rings have scales divided similarly to those mentioned above, the equinoctial being numbered for declination, the solstitial for polar distance. The scale on the equator is for right ascension and is numbered 0 to 360 from the first point of Aries. The zodiacal band has names and representations of the signs and a 30-degree scale for each.

Pivots at the ecliptic poles carry two pairs of right-angled rings, one ('DEFERENS SOLEM') with a sun figure on its ecliptic ring, the other ('DEFERENS LVNEM') with the moon on an epicycle. Within this are pivoted two arms that extend to the equatorial poles and support a single ring within which is a geographical globe.