- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
-
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...
- (106): 42–62 Laird,
Edgar (1997), Poster, Carol; Utz,
Richard (eds.), "
Astrolabes and the
Construction of Time in the Late
Middle Ages",
Constructions of...
- limb) of the instrument.
Alidades of this form are
found on
astrolabes, mariner's
astrolabes and
similar instruments.
Alidade D has
vanes without any openings...
