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 ...

Ancient Greek astronomers and early Islamic scientists used astrolabes as mechanical computers to calculate time, determine ...

Long before smartphones compressed clocks, maps, calendars, and calculators into a pocket-sized screen, another device ...

Sometimes a little modern technology can help turn up an ancient treasure — even if that technology is nothing more than a computer screen and a simple web search. That's what happened to Federica ...

Big news from the world of auctions, where what might well be the single largest astrolabe on Earth is up for sale. And what, ...

Guinness World Records have independently certified an astrolabe excavated from the wreck site of a Portuguese Armada Ship that was part of Vasco da Gama's second voyage to India in 1502-1503 as the ...

The Warwick Manufacturing Group, an academic department at the University of Warwick, is usually concerned with the future. Its researchers use high-resolution lasers and 3D visualizations to create ...

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 ...

March 18 (UPI) --Guinness World Records has verified that a mariner's astrolabe recovered from the wreckage of a sunken Portuguese armada ship is indeed the earliest of its kind. Researchers with the ...

A mariner’s astrolabe recovered from the wreck of one of Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama’s ships is now officially the oldest known such artifact, according to a new paper in the International ...