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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 2709. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

History And Archaeoastronomy, History Of Astronomy

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The astrolabe (more exactly, the planispheric astrolabe, to distinguish it from less important variants) was an observing and calculating instrument that had its roots in antiquity and reached maturity in the Islamic world. Christian monasteries on the slopes of the Pyrenees made early contact with ISLAMIC ASTRONOMY, and late in the tenth century Gerbert of Aurillac (later Pope Sylvester II) may ...

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