Astrolabes, quadrants, and calculating devices - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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نام نخستين پديدآور
King, David A.
وضعیت نشر و پخش و غیره
محل نشرو پخش و غیره
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نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره
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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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Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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