​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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Last month, The New Eves released their stunning third single ‘Astrolabe’, a love story based around its titular astronomical apparatus. With lyrics taken from a 17th Century ring inscription ...

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, ...

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, ...

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 ...

The astrolabe was likely made in the Muslim-ruled area of Spain in the 11th century, before eventually finding its way to the hands of the Jewish diaspora in Italy.