The University of Sharjah hosted an astrolabe workshop in which western scientists showed participants how an astronomical instrument made by an ancient Muslim scholar nearly 1,000 years ago measured ...

The Warwick Manufacturing Group, an academic department at the University of Warwick, is usually concerned with the future. Its researchers use high-resolution lasers and 3D visualizations to create ...

March 18 (UPI) --Guinness World Records has verified that a mariner's astrolabe recovered from the wreckage of a sunken Portuguese armada ship is indeed the earliest of its kind. Researchers with the ...

ALTHOUGH the astrolabe has found some support among surveyors, it has not been widely used by British astronomers. An extensive account in English of the practical use of the modern astrolabe has ...

The identification of an eleventh-century Islamic astrolabe bearing both Arabic and Hebrew inscriptions makes it one of the oldest examples ever discovered and one of only a handful known in the world ...

Hamza Haq is a firm believer in Keyboard/Mouse supremacy and will play Tekken with WASD if you let him. As a Writer at DualShockers, Baldur's Gate 3, Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, and Elden Ring is his ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A rare navigational tool has snagged a Guinness World Record as the oldest mariner's astrolabe.

In the mid-game of Nightingale, one of the most important items you find will be the Astrolabe Card. This Major Card lets you visit Realms with a higher power cap than any you’ve explored so far, and ...