The Alidade (IMAGE)

University of Sharjah

The Alidade

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Additional components of the alidade. The the torch of science was switched off in Europe in the Dark Ages, but it played over the lands under the Arab and Muslim empire.

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Copyright: Museum of Islamic Art, Doha. SI.5.1999

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