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    An astrolabe (Greek: ἀστρολάβος astrolábos, 'star-taker'; Arabic: ٱلأَسْطُرلاب al-Asṭurlāb; Persian: ستاره‌یاب Setāreyāb) is an astronomical instrument...
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    The mariner's astrolabe, also called sea astrolabe, was an inclinometer used to determine the latitude of a ship at sea by measuring the sun's noon altitude...
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    astronomical instrument called astrolabe. It is also the title of a Sanskrit treatise on the construction and working of the astrolabe composed by a Jain astronomer...
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    A Treatise on the Astrolabe is a medieval instruction manual on the astrolabe by Geoffrey Chaucer. It was completed in 1391. It describes both the form...
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  • The Barcelona astrolabe is the oldest astrolabe with Carolingian characters that has survived in the Christian Occident. The French researcher Marcel...
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  • astrolabe (as the word is used from the medieval period through today) is the name of a specific astronomical instrument. Prior to that, "astrolabe"...
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  • The Verona astrolabe is an archaeological discovery unearthed in the vaults of a museum in Verona, Italy. Dating back to the eleventh century, this Islamic...
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    An armillary sphere (variations are known as spherical astrolabe, armilla, or armil) is a model of objects in the sky (on the celestial sphere), consisting...
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    Astrolabe Glacier is a glacier 10 kilometres (10 km) wide and 19 kilometres (10 nmi) long, flowing north-northeast from the continental ice and terminating...
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  • name Astrolabe, after the instrument astrolabe Astrolabe (1781) of La Pérouse (1781), a converted fluyt Boussole (1782) was briefly named Astrolabe in 1785...
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