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    One of our sponsors is: Not set - Change. The first printed book on the astrolabe was Composition and Use of Astrolabe by Christian of Prachatice , also using Messahalla, but relatively original.

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    In , the first Indian treatise on the astrolabe was written by the Jain astronomer Mahendra Suri. A simplified astrolabe, known as a balesilha , was used by sailors to get an accurate reading of latitude while out to sea.

    The use of the balesilha was promoted by Prince Henry — while out navigating for Portugal. The first known metal astrolabe in Western Europe is the Destombes astrolabe made from brass in tenth-century Spain. Metal astrolabes were heavier than wooden instruments of the same size, making it difficult to use them in navigation. The astrolabe was almost certainly first brought north of the Pyrenees by Gerbert of Aurillac future Pope Sylvester II , where it was integrated into the quadrivium at the school in Reims, France sometime before the turn of the 11th century.

    Thirteen of his astrolabes survive to this day.

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    Four identical 16th-century astrolabes made by Georg Hartmann provide some of the earliest evidence for batch production by division of labor. Mechanical astronomical clocks were initially influenced by the astrolabe; they could be seen in many ways as clockwork astrolabes designed to produce a continual display of the current position of the sun, stars, and planets.

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    History of Western Philosophy. Gunther, The Astrolabes of the World , Vol. Great Little Vineyards New Zealand: The Astrarium of Giovanni de' Dondi". Upgrade to Pro Version to view data from the last five years. The mountain often referred to as 'The Giant of Provence' stands alone from the Alps mountain range, of which it is technically a part, and towers over the landscape for miles around. Astronomers by century CE AD.

    For example, Richard of Wallingford 's clock c. Many astronomical clocks use an astrolabe-style display, such as the famous clock at Prague , adopting a stereographic projection see below of the ecliptic plane. In recent times, astrolabe watches have become popular. For example, Swiss watchmaker Dr. Ludwig Oechslin designed and built an astrolabe wristwatch in conjunction with Ulysse Nardin in An astrolabe consists of a disk, called the mater mother , which is deep enough to hold one or more flat plates called tympans , or climates.

    A tympan is made for a specific latitude and is engraved with a stereographic projection of circles denoting azimuth and altitude and representing the portion of the celestial sphere above the local horizon. The rim of the mater is typically graduated into hours of time , degrees of arc , or both. Above the mater and tympan, the rete , a framework bearing a projection of the ecliptic plane and several pointers indicating the positions of the brightest stars , is free to rotate.

    These pointers are often just simple points, but depending on the skill of the craftsman can be very elaborate and artistic. There are examples of astrolabes with artistic pointers in the shape of balls, stars, snakes, hands, dogs' heads, and leaves, among others. The rete, representing the sky , functions as a star chart. When it is rotated, the stars and the ecliptic move over the projection of the coordinates on the tympan.

    One complete rotation corresponds to the passage of a day. The astrolabe is therefore a predecessor of the modern planisphere. On the back of the mater there is often engraved a number of scales that are useful in the astrolabe's various applications.

    These vary from designer to designer, but might include curves for time conversions, a calendar for converting the day of the month to the sun's position on the ecliptic, trigonometric scales, and a graduation of degrees around the back edge. The alidade is attached to the back face.

    An alidade can be seen in the lower right illustration of the Persian astrolabe above. When the astrolabe is held vertically, the alidade can be rotated and the sun or a star sighted along its length, so that its altitude in degrees can be read "taken" from the graduated edge of the astrolabe; hence the word's Greek roots: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Not to be confused with cosmolabe. For other pages with a similar name, see Astrolabe disambiguation. For a list of ships, see French ship Astrolabe. Gunther, The Astrolabes of the World , Vol.

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    Routledge and Kegan Paul. Gunther, Astrolabes of the World , Oxford, , pp. Journal of Islamic Studies. There is no evidence for the Hellenistic origin of the spherical astrolabe, but rather evidence so far available suggests that it may have been an early but distinctly Islamic development with no Greek antecedents.

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