[Uri] has another video that goes over astrolabe basics and his design process that’s well worth watching too. While it’s nowhere near as complicated an instrument, this astrolabe puts us in ...

The tool in question is an astrolabe, an ancient instrument used by sailors to figure out the sun's altitude during their journey, stated BBC. The astrolabe was found on a ship Esmeralda and could ...

The astrolabe was a mathematical instrument which was used to carry out astronomical measurements, to calculate the positions of the sun and the stars, and to tell the time. This one was made in ...

The astronomical instrument ... Dr. Federica Gigante ... Dr. Gigante first came across a newly uploaded image of the astrolabe by chance on the website of the Fondazione Museo Miniscalchi-Erizzo.

What I'm holding is a portable model of the heavens, in the shape of an exquisite, circular brass instrument that looks a bit like a large brass pocket watch, and it's called an astrolabe.

A basic astrolabe begins with the mater ... so the rete is used to adjust the instrument based on which zodiac sign the Sun is currently in. While astrolabes were effective, they were also ...

What I'm holding is a portable model of the heavens, in the shape of an exquisite, circular brass instrument that looks a bit like a large brass pocket watch, and it's called an astrolabe.