Find another word for astrolabe. In this page you can discover 3 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for astrolabe, like: sextant, cross-staff and planisphere.
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.