Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The astrolabe is an astronomical calculating device used from ancient times into the nineteenth century. Measuring the ...
Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The astrolabe is an astronomical calculating device used from ancient times into the eighteenth century. Measuring the ...
Islamic planispheric astrolabe in brass, diameter 25cm, Maghribi, 18th century, with rete, eight plates, alidade, cursor, pin and horse, plus two additional plates of later date. Islamic planispheric ...
image: Guinness World Records have independently certified an astrolabe excavated from the wreck site of a Portuguese Armada Ship that was part of Vasco da Gama's second voyage to India in 1502-1503 ...