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" Astrolabes, quadrants, and calculating devices - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
King, David A.
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English
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1060753
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ALei1150
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King, David A.
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Astrolabes, quadrants, and calculating devices - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ King, David A.
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Leiden: Brill
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Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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(2,946 words)
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Astrolabe (Ar. asṭurlāb or aṣṭurlāb ), is a Greek invention of late antiquity, which Muslims first encountered in the second/eighth century in Ḥarrān. The utility of the instrument—a mirror of the universe that can be held in the hand—immediately inspired them to make astrolabes of their own, with the earliest surviving Islamic astrolabe dating from late second/eighth-century Baghdad. The instrument has many uses, especially as an analogue computer and for astronomical timekeeping, as well as for deriving basic information for a horoscope. Muslim astronomers in Baghdad
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Islam.
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ALei1150.pdf
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