In 1995, when research for first time threw ample light on al-Khujandi’s astrolabe, Prof. Hogendijk decided to discard his old hand-drawn astrolabe models. “I decided to draw by hand a new ...

This generated much enthusiasm for the astrolabe and for Islamic science in general." In 1995, when research for first time threw ample light on al-Khujandi's astrolabe, Prof. Hogendijk decided to ...

Astrolabe's Arabic, Hebrew markings recall period of Muslim, Jewish scholarship This discovery sheds new light on the rich history of scholarship and intellectual exchange between Muslims, ...

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 ...

The astrolabe dates from 11th-century Spain and has origins that are Islamic, Jewish and Christian. Skip to main content. Open menu Close menu. Space. Search. Search Space. Sign in.

The museum thought it might be a fake, but when Gigante visited to see the astrolabe firsthand, she realized it was not only an authentic 11th-century instrument—one of the oldest yet discovered ...

This discovery sheds new light on the rich history of scholarship and intellectual exchange between Muslims, Jews and Christians during a time of Muslim rule in medieval Spain.

F. Gigante, ‘A Medieval Islamic Astrolabe with Hebrew Inscriptions in Verona: The Seventeenth-Century Collection of Ludovico Moscardo’, Nuncius (2024). DOI : 10.1163/18253911-bja10095 .