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noun - an early form of sextant
A medieval instrument, now replaced by the sextant, that was once used to determine the altitude of the sun or other celestial bodies.
ASTROLABE - An astrolabe (Greek: astrolabos; Arabic: al-Asturlb; Persian: Akhtaryab) is an elaborate inclinometer, historically used by astronomers and naviga...
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| Chaucer wrote a treatise on how to build one of these & use it to compute the position of a star |
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| A medieval instrument, now replaced by the sextant, that was once used to determine the altitude of the sun or other celestial bodies. |
| an instrument used to make astronomical measurements, typically of the altitudes of celestial bodies, and in navigation for calculating latitude, before the development of the sextant. |
| an early form of sextant |
| a circular device used from ancient times until about the 18th century for measuring the position of stars, and on ships for calculating the ship's position: |
| An instrument used to make astronomical measurements, typically of the altitudes of celestial bodies, and in navigation for calculating latitude, before the development of the sextant. |
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An astrolabe (Greek: astrolabos; Arabic: al-Asturlb; Persian: Akhtaryab) is an elaborate inclinometer, historically used by astronomers and navigators to measure the inclined position in the sky of a celestial body, day or night. The word astrolabe means "the one that catches the heavenly bodies." It can thus be used to identify stars or planets, to determine local latitude given local time (and vice versa), to survey, or to triangulate. It was used in classical antiquity, the Islamic Golden Age, the European Middle Ages, and the Renaissance for all these purposes. * The astrolabe's importance not only comes from the early development of astronomy, but is also effective for determining latitude on land or calm seas. Although it is less reliable on the heaving deck of a ship in rough seas, the mariner's astrolabe was developed to solve that problem.* |