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 ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. An ancient book on astronomy from the 1500s sold for more than £10,000 ($12,200), as a "private international buyer" ...

An 11th-century artifact sitting in an Italian museum has been identified as a scientific instrument inscribed with an incredible surprise: signs of use by Muslim, Hebrew and Christian users. Federica ...

Federica Gigante found a “rare” astrolabe with Hebrew and Arabic inscriptions from an Italian museum collection. Photo by Federica Candelato from the University of Cambridge Federica Gigante was ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. An astrophysicist has shed new light on how the ancient Egyptians ...

The mathematical principles of Ptolemy’s Planisphaerium enabled the projection of the three-dimensional universe onto a flat ...