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- An astrolabe (Ancient Gr****: ἀστρολάβος, romanized: astrolábos, lit. 'star-taker'; Arabic: ٱلأَسْطُرلاب, romanized: al-Asṭurlāb; Persian: ستاره‌یاب,...
- An astrolabe (as the word is used from the medieval period through today) is the name of a specific astronomical instrument. Another meaning are a type...
- The Barcelona astrolabe is the oldest astrolabe with Carolingian characters that has survived in the Christian Occident. The French researcher Marcel...
- A Treatise on the Astrolabe is a medieval instruction manual on the astrolabe by Geoffrey Chaucer. It was completed in 1391. It describes both the form...
- The mariner's astrolabe, also called sea astrolabe, was an inclinometer used to determine the latitude of a ship at sea by measuring the sun's noon altitude...
- The Astrolabe Company (German: Astrolabe-Compagnie) was a German "colonial society" (Kolonialgesellschaft) in Kaiser-Wilhelmsland, which existed from 1891...
- Astrolabe Needle (64°8′S 62°36′W / 64.133°S 62.600°W / -64.133; -62.600) is a con****uous monolith rising 50 metres (160 ft) above sea level south...
- An armillary sphere (variations are known as spherical astrolabe, armilla, or armil) is a model of objects in the sky (on the celestial sphere), consisting...
- Astrolabe Glacier is a glacier 10 kilometres (10 km) wide and 19 kilometres (10 nmi) long, flowing north-northeast from the continental ice and terminating...
- Astrolabe Island (63°17′S 58°40′W / 63.283°S 58.667°W / -63.283; -58.667 (Astrolabe Island)) is an island 3 nautical miles (5.6 km; 3.5 mi) long,...