Astrolabe with Inscriptions (IMAGE)

University of Sharjah

Astrolabe with Inscriptions

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Constructed on the basis of an original made in ca. 340/950 by Ahamad b. Halaf. According to the inscription, it was made for Jaafar b. al−Muktafi in the tenth century. This astrolabe has some similarity with the astrolabe made for, or ascribed to, Pope Sylvester II (380/990).

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Science and Technology in Islam, vol. II (Astronomy), published by the Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science at Frankfurt, Germany, in 2003.

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