The astrolabe, a complex instrument utilized by ancient mariners, is key to establishing latitude by observing celestial ...

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 ...

[Uri] has another video that goes over astrolabe basics and his design process that’s well worth watching too. While it’s nowhere near as complicated an instrument, this astrolabe puts us in ...

It was exhilarating." Andalusian Origins Dr. Gigante, an expert in Islamic scientific instruments, identified the astrolabe’s origin as Andalusian Spain. Specific design elements and ...

Dr. Gigante, an expert on Islamic astrolabes and previously a curator of Islamic scientific instruments, dated and located the creation of the "Verona astrolabe" by analyzing key scientific ...

Marine archaeologists say the object is an astrolabe, an instrument once used by mariners to measure the altitude of the Sun during their voyages. It is believed to date from between 1495 and 1500.

What I'm holding is a portable model of the heavens, in the shape of an exquisite, circular brass instrument that looks a bit like a large brass pocket watch, and it's called an astrolabe.

A rare eleventh-century Islamic astrolabe has been discovered in the ... the astronomical instrument appears to have been used by Muslim, Jewish, and Christian people in Spain, North Africa ...

The astrolabe was a mathematical instrument which was used to carry out astronomical measurements, to calculate the positions of the sun and the stars, and to tell the time. This one was made in ...

What I'm holding is a portable model of the heavens, in the shape of an exquisite, circular brass instrument that looks a bit like a large brass pocket watch, and it's called an astrolabe.

The astronomical instrument ... Dr. Federica Gigante ... Dr. Gigante first came across a newly uploaded image of the astrolabe by chance on the website of the Fondazione Museo Miniscalchi-Erizzo.