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- that metal astrolabes were known in the Christian East well before they were developed in the Islamic world or in the Latin West. Astrolabes were further...
- wood or ivory, were not desirable though some wood sea astrolabes were made. Early sea astrolabes were made from sheets of br****. Due to their light weight...
- bint al-ʻIjliyy (Arabic: العجلية بنت العجلي) was a 10th-century maker of astrolabes active in Aleppo, in what is now northern Syria. She is sometimes known...
- 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...
- The Barcelona astrolabe is the oldest astrolabe with Carolingian characters that has survived in the Christian Occident. The French researcher Marcel...
- The first person to give a description of the astrolabe was Theon of Alexandria (c.335 - 405 CE). Astrolabes were further developed in the medieval Islamic...
- OCLC 10467740; and translated into English by H.W. Green in R.T. Gunther, The Astrolabes of the World, Vol. 1/2, Oxford, 1932, OL 18840299M repr. London: Holland...
- father Theon's commentary on Book III of the Almagest. Hypatia constructed astrolabes and hydrometers, but did not invent either of these, which were both in...
- Astrolabe Needle (64°8′S 62°36′W / 64.133°S 62.600°W / -64.133; -62.600) is a con****uous monolith rising 50 metres (160 ft) above sea level south...
- (106): 42–62 Laird, Edgar (1997), Poster, Carol; Utz, Richard (eds.), "Astrolabes and the Construction of Time in the Late Middle Ages", Constructions of...