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North African, 9th century CE, planispheric astrolabe. Khalili Collection. A modern astrolabe made in 2013, in Tabriz, Iran.. An astrolabe (Ancient Greek: ἀστρολάβος astrolábos, ' star-taker '; Arabic: ٱلأَسْطُرلاب al-Asṭurlāb; Persian: ستارهیاب Setāreyāb) is an astronomical instrument dating to ancient times.
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 ...
Voting period ends on 17 Jan 2025 at 06:59:56 (UTC). Original – The reconnaissance of Adelie Land, 20 January 1840, by the ships L'Astrolabe and La Zelée Reason A fine image of one of the voyages of Antarctic exploration
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. [1]
Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) is a website provided by NASA and Michigan Technological University (MTU). It reads: "Each day a different image or photograph of our universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer ."
Astrolabe was originally a horse-transport barge converted into an exploration ship of the French Navy. Originally named Coquille , she is famous for her travels with Jules Dumont d'Urville . The name derives from an early navigational instrument , the astrolabe , a precursor to the sextant .
More arrests are expected in the alleged sex trafficking of Long Island teen Emmarae Gervasi, The Post has learned. “There’s a few more people” Suffolk County police are looking into, said a ...
18th Century Persian astrolabe a Wikipedia:Featured picture. A clean and crisp illustration of an astrolabe - unfortunately I don't read Persian to check that the stars are labelled correctly. One of the better shots I got from visiting the Whipple Museum of Science.- Solipsist 21:23, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC) Support