This rare 11th century Islamic astrolabe is one of the oldest yet discovered
Enlarge / Shut up of the eleventh century Verona astrolabe exhibiting Hebrew (prime left) and Arabic inscriptions. Federica Gigante Cambridge College historian Federica Gigante is an skilled on Islamic astrolabes. So naturally she was intrigued when the Fondazione Museo Miniscalchi-Erizzo in Verona, Italy, uploaded a picture of simply such an astrolabe to its web site. … Read more