Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Mariners were using astrolabes like this one to determine latitude by the late fifteenth century. A mariner would hold ...

Drexel takes into consideration a number of criteria when determining admission, including your high school performance, letters of recommendation, standardized test scores, and essay. Students are ...

Astrolabe (left); 3-D laser scan of astrolabe (right)(David L. Mearns, University of Warwick) Over the past several years, divers have retrieved thousands of objects from the wreck site of the ...

ASTROLABES are not as generally available for study in the museums of the world as their scientific importance and artistic qualities would merit, but all who may desire to become better acquainted ...

Mosque and hospital of Divriği in modern day Turkey. It was built in the 13th century and you can still visit its remains today. During the Abbasid Caliphate (AD750 -1258), Baghdad became the centre ...

ALTHOUGH a manuscript of 1697 in the Bodleian Library has provided an inventory of the instruments belonging to the early Savilian professors, it is only quite recently that certain of these ...

The Golden Age of Islam saw an explosion of ideas, inventions and learning. Baghdad became the centre for science, maths and more! Mosque and hospital of Divriği in modern day Turkey. It was built in ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This brass horary quadrant probably ...

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 ...

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