Astrolabe's Arabic, Hebrew markings recall period of Muslim, Jewish scholarship This discovery sheds new light on the rich history of scholarship and intellectual exchange between Muslims, ...

The Astrolabe (Greek: ἀστρολάβος astrolabos, from astron (star) and lambanein (to take), i.e. star-taker) is a sophisticated inclinometer (a device used to measure and monitor the ...

The astrolabe, along with other items inherited by Moscardo’s descendants upon his death in 1681, resides in what is now the Museum of the Miniscalchi-Erizzo Foundation in Verona, ...

Across history, ancient civilizations crafted prototypes for many of the modern mechanisms that have become integral to ...

​A remarkable 1,000-year-old artefact has been discovered at the Fondazione Museo Miniscalchi-Erizzo in Verona, Italy, by ...

I chose an old Islamic astrolabe, for example, a Yemeni astrolabe from the 12th century, and drew by hand a somewhat simplified model of two parts of the instrument on paper. These two drawings I ...

The University of Sharjah hosted an astrolabe workshop in which western scientists showed participants how an astronomical instrument made by an ancient Muslim scholar nearly 1,000 years ago ...

THERE are not a few treatises, old and new, that concern themselves with that ancient and beautiful instrument, the astrolabe ; but few, if any, are of use to the student or collector possessing ...

An Islamic astrolabe from medieval Spain, discovered in a museum in Verona, Italy, has been found to contain multiple layers of Hebrew engravings, thought to be additions by various Jewish owners ...