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- An astrolabe (Ancient Gr****: ἀστρολάβος astrolábos, 'star-taker'; Arabic: ٱلأَسْطُرلاب al-Asṭurlāb; Persian: ستاره‌یاب Setāreyāb) is an astronomical instrument...
- The mariner's astrolabe, also called sea astrolabe, was an inclinometer used to determine the latitude of a ship at sea by measuring the sun's noon altitude...
- The Barcelona astrolabe is the oldest astrolabe with Carolingian characters that has survived in the Christian Occident. The French researcher Marcel...
- An astrolabe (as the word is used from the medieval period through today) is the name of a specific astronomical instrument. Another meaning are a type...
- A Treatise on the Astrolabe is a medieval instruction manual on the astrolabe by Geoffrey Chaucer. It was completed in 1391. It describes both the form...
- Astrolabe Park is a 9.17-hectare (23-acre) public park in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Astrolabe Park is located south-east...
- 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...
- 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...
- name Astrolabe, after the instrument astrolabe Astrolabe (1781) of La Pérouse (1781), a converted fluyt Boussole (1782) was briefly named Astrolabe in 1785...
- Astrolabe Island (63°17′S 58°40′W / 63.283°S 58.667°W / -63.283; -58.667 (Astrolabe Island)) is an island 3 nautical miles (5.6 km; 3.5 mi) long,...