​A remarkable 1,000-year-old artefact has been discovered at the Fondazione Museo Miniscalchi-Erizzo in Verona, Italy, by Federica Gigante, a historian from the University of Cambridge. It may not ...

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, ...

French sculptor Jean-Michel Othoniel has transformed the southern French city of Avignon into a dazzling installation with thousands of hand-blown glass beads. Not even the artist himself knows ...

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, ...

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 ...

The astrolabe dates from 11th-century Spain and has origins that are Islamic, Jewish and Christian. Skip to main content. Open menu Close menu. Space. Search. Search Space. Sign in.

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 ...

An astrolabe is a scientific instrument used to work out the time of day using the sun or the stars. It could also be used for astrological horoscopes and mathematical calculations. Astrolabes ...

The museum thought it might be a fake, but when Gigante visited to see the astrolabe firsthand, she realized it was not only an authentic 11th-century instrument—one of the oldest yet discovered ...

An 11th-century astrolabe, a complex instrument for precisely mapping the heavens, recently turned up in an Italian museum. Skip to content Skip to site index Science | This 1,000-Year-Old ...