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ASTROLABE
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Title:
ASTROLABE
Caption:
An astrolabe is an elaborate inclinometer, historically used by astronomers, navigators, and astrologers. Its many uses include locating and predicting the positions of the Sun, Moon, planets, and stars, determining local time given local latitude and vice-versa, surveying, triangulation, and to cast horoscopes. It was used in classical antiquity, through the Islamic Golden Age, the European Middle Ages and Renaissance for all these purposes. In the Islamic world, it was also used to calculate the Qibla and to find the times for Salah, prayers.
Category:
Science: History
Credit:
Album / Science Source / New York Public Library
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Image size:
4200 x 4156 px | 49.9 MB
Print size:
35.6 x 35.2 cm | 14.0 x 13.9 in (300 dpi)
Keywords:
ASTROLABE • ASTROLOGERS • ASTROLOGIA • ASTROLOGY • ASTRONOMERS • ASTRONOMIA • ASTRONOMICAL • ASTRONOMY • CALCULATE THE QIBLA • CAST HOROSCOPES • CELEBRITIES • CELEBRITY • CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY • DETERMINE LATITUDE • DETERMINE LONGITUDE • DETERMINE TIME OF DAY • DETERMINING LOCAL TIME • DEVICE • DIPPING NEEDLE • FAMOUS PEOPLE • FAMOUS • FLAT PLATES • FRAMEWORK • HISTORIC • HISTORICAL • HISTORY • IMPORTANT • INCLINOMETER • INSTRUMENT • ISLAMIC GOLDEN AGE • MARITIME • MATER • MEASUREMENT • MEASURING • MEDIEVAL • MIDDLE AGES • NAUTICAL • NAVIGATION • NAVIGATIONAL • NAVIGATORS • NOTABLE • PLANISPHERE • POSITIONS OF THE MOON • POSITIONS OF THE PLANETS • POSITIONS OF THE STARS • POSITIONS OF THE SUN • RENAISSANCE • SCIENCE • SCIENCE: HISTORY • SURVEYING • TIME FOR PRAYERS • TIMES FOR SALAH • TOOL • TRIANGULATION • TYMPANS • WELL-KNOWN • WHITE BACKGROUND
