The astrolabe, a complex instrument utilized by ancient mariners, is key to establishing latitude by observing celestial bodies. During this leg of the journey, participants undergo practical training ...

With modern GPS, we often don’t think too hard about how to navigate, but GPS does not work very well on the open sea. That is why modern ships are equipped with technology such as radar and a ...

And watching someone recreate the feat, such as by building an astrolabe by hand, can be very appealing too. The astrolabe is an ancient astronomical tool of incredible versatility, allowing the ...

Arabic manuscript expounding an astrolabe shape of crab or Arabic 'Salta'oon'. Credit: Science and technology in Islam, vol. II (Astronomy), Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science at ...

Back in the 11th century, when our understanding of the heavens was limited, astronomy and astrology were considered the same thing. "When the astrolabe got into Jewish and Christian hands ...

The astrolabe was a mathematical instrument which ... In the seventeenth-century, the instrument was given to the Savilian Professor of Astronomy at the University of Oxford.

How do astrolabes invented by Mariam help astronomy? An astrolabe is a device that uses astral bodies like the sun and stars to either tell your position in latitude, or tell the local time.

We don't know exactly who owned the Hebrew astrolabe in today's programme, but it tells us a great deal about how Jewish and Islamic scholars revitalised science and astronomy by developing the ...

The identification of an eleventh-century Islamic astrolabe bearing both Arabic and Hebrew inscriptions makes it one of the oldest examples ever discovered and one of only a handful known in the ...

We don't know exactly who owned the Hebrew astrolabe in today's programme, but it tells us a great deal about how Jewish and Islamic scholars revitalised science and astronomy by developing the ...

An ancient Arabic manuscript expounding the function of an astrolabe constructed in the shape of crab or Arabic 'Salta'oon'. Science and Technology in Islam, vol. II (Astronomy), published by the ...

NASA ambassador David Falkner will be the featured speaker March 2 at the monthly meeting of the Minnesota Astronomical Society. The hybrid meeting, which will be held from 7-9 p.m. is free and ...