Brass Globe (IMAGE)
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It was the Arabic astrolabe that reached medieval Europe around the 12th century, as did the globe, another highly practical and useful Arab navigational instrument. Some extant European medieval manuscripts show astrolabe drawings in both Arabic and Latin.
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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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