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 ...

Instrument was adapted, translated and corrected by Muslim and Jewish users in Spain, north Africa and Italy Almost exactly a year ago, Federica Gigante was preparing a lecture and searching the ...

The tool enabled users to calculate time and distances, plot the position of the stars, and even forecast the future by casting a horoscope. Researchers at Cambridge University in the UK have ...

A remarkable astrolabe showing academic collaboration between Muslims and Jews in 11th-century Spain has been fortuitously uncovered by a Cambridge University history lecturer. The discovery came last ...

Lost & Found This 1,000-Year-Old Smartphone Just Dialed In By Franz Lidz and Clara Vannucci For 2,000 years, celestial observers mapped the heavens with astonishingly precise instruments called ...

Besides ability to provide precise measurements of altitude, local time, and position of starts, al-Khujandi’s astrolabe is of astounding beauty. Credit: The Museum of Islamic Art, Doha: Marc ...