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

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 ...

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, ...

​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 ...

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, ...

The precious astrolabe was found languishing in a museum in the Italian city of Verona. An 11th-century astrolabe — a device used for accurately calculating the date and time based on star ...

The astrolabe is an astronomical calculating device used from ancient times into the eighteenth century. Measuring the height of a star using the back of the instrument, and knowing the latitude, one ...

The astrolabe is an astronomical calculating device used from ancient times into the eighteenth century. Measuring the height of a star using the back of the instrument, and knowing the latitude, one ...

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 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 ...

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 ...