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The whole of this section describes the form of an astrolabe. The astrolabe is based on a large plate ("The moder" or "mother") which is arranged to hang vertically from a thumb ring. It has "a large hool, that resceiveth in hir wombe the thin plates". [19] [i] The back of the astrolabe is engraved with various scales (see Skeat's sketch below ...
The first known metal astrolabe in Western Europe is the Destombes astrolabe made from brass in the eleventh century in Portugal. [ 27 ] [ 28 ] (p 140) Metal astrolabes avoided the warping that large wooden ones were prone to, allowing the construction of larger and therefore more accurate instruments.
An astrolabe from the Mughal era exhibited at the National Museum in New Delhi, India. Yantrarāja is the Sanskrit name for the ancient astronomical instrument called astrolabe . It is also the title of a Sanskrit treatise on the construction and working of the astrolabe composed by a Jain astronomer Mahendra Sūri in around 1370 CE.
Jost Bürgi and Antonius Eisenhoit: Armillary sphere with astronomical clock, made in 1585 in Kassel, now at Nordiska Museet in Stockholm. An armillary sphere (variations are known as spherical astrolabe, armilla, or armil) is a model of objects in the sky (on the celestial sphere), consisting of a spherical framework of rings, centered on Earth or the Sun, that represent lines of celestial ...
Sketch of the southern celestial sky by Mestre João Faras, from his letter of May 1, 1500. Master João Faras left the ships on 27 April, and with the assistance of the pilots Afonso Lopes and Pedro Escobar , set up a large wooden astrolabe on the beach (more reliable than the tin ones used aboard ship) with the objective of taking the ...
Herman of Carinthia, translator of Planisphaerium, with an astrolabe. Originally written in Ancient Greek, Planisphaerium was one of many scientific works which survived from antiquity in Arabic translation.
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The Verona astrolabe is an archaeological discovery unearthed in the vaults of a museum in Verona, Italy. [1] Dating back to the eleventh century, this Islamic astrolabe is one of the oldest examples of its kind and is among the few known to exist worldwide. It appears to have been employed by Muslim, Jewish, and Christian communities spanning ...