How To Use Astrolabe In A Sentence
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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).
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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
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Lavanha also studied instruments used in navigation, constructing astrolabes, quadrants and compasses.
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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
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For example, the key tools of navigators - the quadrant and the astrolabe - were of Jewish manufacture.
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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
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An early form of analogue computer, the astrolabe was primarily designed to solve problems of spherical trigonometry to shorten astronomical calculations.
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He also wrote works on astronomical instruments, for example on constructing and using an astrolabe.
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The construction of astronomical instruments such as the astrolabe was also a speciality of the Arabs.
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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
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In al-Marrakushi's work are developed the construction of planispheres, astrolabes, quadrants and the need of gnomonics, which constituted the great interest of Sedillot who had written by far the best account on Muslim astronomical instruments.
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Sophisticated instruments, which were to make possible the European voyages of discovery, were developed, including the astrolabe, the quadrant and good navigational maps.
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The astrolabe was a highly developed tool used throughout the Muslim world to measure the altitude of stars and planets.
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The ships then sailed to Blind Bay and anchored in the Astrolabe roadstead.
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When the ten minutes are up, as signified by the ding of an egg timer, a piece of nautical equipment as pedigreed as an astrolabe or a sextant.
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An early form of analogue computer, the astrolabe was primarily designed to solve problems of spherical trigonometry to shorten astronomical calculations.
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The next big improvement in surveying, a means of measuring angles between landmarks, was the astrolabe.
Book review: Thunderer by Felix Gilman
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And then our trademark and exclusive, shipwreck artifacts: This time we will have a genuine bronze astrolabe, the most complete and intact one we have ever handled, fully dated 1656 and well detailed, solid and stable, alidade intact, one of fewer than 80 pieces known and among the best from any wreck.
Daniel Frank Sedwick Treasure and World Coin Auction #7 : Coin Collecting News
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Unlike the delicate quadrant, the mariner's astrolabe was a thick, weighty instrument typically made of cast bronze or brass.
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He visited Portugal about 1480, invented a new kind of astrolabe, and sailed with it in 1484 as cosmographer in Diego Cam's voyage to the Congo.
The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest
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The other instrument, called the astrolabe, was a brass circle marked off into 360 degrees.
Introductory American History
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The '' 'astrolabe' '' was a compact round disc used to observe and calculate the position of [[celestial bodies]] before the invention of the [[sextant]].
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
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[Illustration: ARABIC ASTROLABE.] [Illustration: ARABIC ASTROLABE.] 'Ali Pasha, hard by in the Gulf of Lepanto, sent out scouts to ascertain the enemy's strength.
The Story of the Barbary Corsairs
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Arab craftsmen produced complex astronomical instruments, astrolabes, which helped them plot the positions of the stars and tell the time of day.
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Du côté d'Astrolabe par contre (info que je tiens de deux sources différentes mais pas directement) il semblerait que la situation ne soit pas si claire que ça (en gros, soit ils auraient payé, soit ils ont déjà payé une partie).
PointBlog: ça traîne en longueur, et Ginisty aux abonnés absents — Climb to the Stars
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This sketch would be incomplete without some reference to the mysterious astrolabe which is alleged to have been found in the month of August,
Canadian Notabilities, Volume 1
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Then, trimming his lateen sails to navigate against the prevailing headwinds, he sailed into the Southern Hemisphere, in whose unfamiliar skies neither his astrolabe nor his almanacs availed him further.
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Another early navigational instrument that relied on the same principles as the quadrant was the mariner's astrolabe.
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In the latter there is one of the oldest examples of the figures then found almost invariably on the reverse of the so-called astrolabe, a graduated quadrant with the help of which one could obtain the different hours of the day from the observation of the sun's height.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
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I saw a wonderful science tool museum with clockworks from the 17th century, astrolabes, telephones from the turn of the last century, and suchlike, started as a collection by a local baron/scientist.
Kassel, Goslar, Hannover, more Göttingen
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He is famed as the first person to write a Sanskrit treatise on the astrolabe.
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Lavanha also studied instruments used in navigation, constructing astrolabes, quadrants and compasses.
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From a private collection, offerings include several important pairs of globes by Newton, a sextant by Ramsden, an octant by George Jones, equinoctial dials, astrolabes, chronometers, microscopes and nautical antiques.
Useful and Beautiful Devices | clusterflock
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She was well known for her development and construction of astrolabes.
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Astrolabes were circular devices that arranged the stars into three ‘paths’, trisecting the sky at the eastern horizon.
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Barber laid down the astrolabe, leaving the greater part of my head unpolled; and, sitting on the ground, turned over the scents and incense and aloes wood and essences till I was well nigh distraught.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Holywood), and a dissertation upon the astrolabe; the fourth contains what was up to that time the most detailed and copious discussion of gnomonics, i.e. the art of constructing all possible sun-dials; finally, the fifth contains the best and most fundamental exposition of the reform of the calendar accomplished under Gregory XIII.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
