Astrolabe Synonyms

These works are lost; but their titles, combined with expressions in the letters of Synesius, who consulted her about the construction of an astrolabe and a hydroscope, indicate that she devoted herself specially to astronomy and mathematics.

Nearly every one of the modern instruments used for the observations of physical astronomy is a part of the perfected astrolabe.

A circular plate ' made much like the backe parte of an Astrolabe ' with a pivoted alidade, the sights.

For navigational purposes a more basic and sturdy version was needed, and this became known as the mariner's astrolabe.

Chaucer wrote a treatise on the astrolabe; Milton constantly refers to planetary influences; in Shakespeare's King Lear, Gloucester and Edmund represent respectively the old and the new faith.