Using scissors, cut out the astrolabe silhouette (heavy black lines) on this sheet. Tape this silhouette onto your manila folder sheet and cut out this figure. Make a tiny hole at the index point ...
An Islamic astrolabe from medieval Spain, discovered in a museum in Verona, Italy, has been found to contain multiple layers of Hebrew engravings, thought to be additions by various Jewish owners of ...
The University of Sharjah hosted an astrolabe workshop in which western scientists showed participants how an astronomical instrument made by an ancient Muslim scholar nearly 1,000 years ago measured ...
The identification of an eleventh century Islamic astrolabe bearing both Arabic and Hebrew inscriptions makes it one of the oldest examples ever discovered and one of only a handful known in the world ...
The precious astrolabe was found languishing in a museum in the Italian city of Verona. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. An ...
March 18 (UPI) --Guinness World Records has verified that a mariner's astrolabe recovered from the wreckage of a sunken Portuguese armada ship is indeed the earliest of its kind. Researchers with the ...
An old astrolabe was recently discovered in a museum in the Italian city of Verona. It dates back to the 1100s, which makes it one of the oldest astrolabes ever found. Astrolabes are early scientific ...
ALTHOUGH the astrolabe has found some support among surveyors, it has not been widely used by British astronomers. An extensive account in English of the practical use of the modern astrolabe has ...