The stars that twinkled over medieval Verona have long been known for tragically entangling two young lovers in Shakespeare’sRomeo and Juliet. Now a rare Islamic astrolabe that was recently ...

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 measured ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A circular bronze astronomical instrument lies on a blue cloth. An 11th-century astrolabe — a device used for accurately ...

Cambridge University historian Federica Gigante is an expert on Islamic astrolabes. So naturally she was intrigued when the Fondazione Museo Miniscalchi-Erizzo in Verona, Italy, uploaded an image of ...

The identification of an eleventh century Islamic astrolabe bearing both Arabic and Hebrew inscriptions makes it one of the oldest examples ever discovered and one of only a handful known in the world ...

Islamic planispheric astrolabe in brass, diameter 25cm, Maghribi, 18th century, with rete, eight plates, alidade, cursor, pin and horse, plus two additional plates of later date. Islamic planispheric ...

The precious astrolabe was found languishing in a museum in the Italian city of Verona. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. An ...

Besides ability to provide precise measurements of altitude, local time, and position of starts, al-Khujandi’s astrolabe is of astounding beauty. Credit: The Museum of Islamic Art, Doha: Marc ...