How To Use astrolabe In A Sentence
- From Kaiteriteri, cruise the protected waters of the Astrolabe Roadstead past idyllic beaches fringed by lush native forest to the golden expanse of Anchorage Bay (30-45 mins).
- Also, the vermiform constellation Draco, which traditionally occupies the polar position in the heavens of the northern hemisphere, encircles the center of a late quattrocento tapestry depicting the heavens as a wheel of fortune and an enormous astrolabe. Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
- Lavanha also studied instruments used in navigation, constructing astrolabes, quadrants and compasses.
- Schouten and other heroic marine worthies of distant times had navigated the globe, discovered new worlds, penetrated into the most secret solitudes of the deep without any notion of longitude and with no better instruments to take the sun's height than the forestaff and astrolabe. The Frozen Pirate
- For example, the key tools of navigators - the quadrant and the astrolabe - were of Jewish manufacture.
- They set out to find a second youth -- the dream of immortality -- with the astrolabe, which is the creed or Koran all take as their guide. Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies
- An early form of analogue computer, the astrolabe was primarily designed to solve problems of spherical trigonometry to shorten astronomical calculations.
- He also wrote works on astronomical instruments, for example on constructing and using an astrolabe.
- The construction of astronomical instruments such as the astrolabe was also a speciality of the Arabs.
- The problem of fixing geographical location was resolved with the use of the "astrolabe", which made it possible to measure the angle of the sun and that of the pole star. Sailing on and on
