A London auction has put the world's largest astrolabe in the spotlight, tracing its roots from ancient Greece to the royal ...

The astrolabe - or astronomical computer - is possibly the largest in existence and had never been exhibited before.

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

Big news from the world of auctions, where what might well be the single largest astrolabe on Earth is up for sale. And what, you might wonder, is an astrolabe? Oh, boy, am I glad that you asked. The ...

Its renown in the last of these fields was tied to the Lahore School, which blended Islamic and Sanskritic astronomical methods and produced peerless astrolabes—brass instruments with interlocking ...

A spectacular brass astrolabe - or a hand-held astronomical computer - from the 17th Century, once part of the royal collection of Jaipur city in western India, will go under the hammer at Sotheby's ...

in much-needed supplies and aid. At the time, the underwater survey was undertaken by local commercial fishing boats where it was found that in some places, the seafloor had risen by a staggering ...

Experts from the Guinness Book of Records have confirmed a find to be the world’s oldest mariner’s astrolabe, a navigation device used by seamen in the past. The instrument, known as the Sodré ...

This astrolabe was made in the Persian city of Isfahan in about 1715. Isfahan is now in Iran. The object includes a body with throne, a handle that holds a ring for suspending the device, and five ...

In the grand scheme of things, 45 years is not a long time. Back in 1980, it would take me three weeks to run a computer program, written in the programming language Cobol, that worked using punched ...

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 ...