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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Astrolabe"”.
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The Rincon Astrolabe Shipwreck
… tools, a myriad of concretions and a nautical astrolabe. It is from the last that the wreck site took its name. The operation continued for months until local authorities, alerted by a member of the salvage group, issued a cease and desist order. At that point, the whole affair entered a legal …
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Experiencing mathematical proves syntax of an astrolabe
… are exhibited in Art or Science Museums. The astrolabe and the related mathematical theories, as developed in the Arabic and Persian tradition between X-XI Century, are taken as emblematic case for this analysis. The proposed solution is the design of museum spaces which translate the language …
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Análise de observações do diâmetro no contexto da atividade solar
From 1997 to 2003 the CCD Solar Astrolabe of the Observatório Nacional in Rio de Janeiro made more than 20,000 observations of the Solar Semidiameter. The experimental data from1998 to 2001 had been obtained in two independent previous works, by the corrections of the systematic effects on the raw …
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Wanbel: Conflict, Reconciliation and Personhood among the Sam People, Madang Province
… runs from the Finisterre Range northward to the Astrolabe Bay in Madang Province, the Sam people spend a great deal of time talking about being wanbel and participating in ceremonies to restore or maintain a state of wanbel. They believe that a lack of wanbel causes barren gardens, sickness, …
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Bridging Discourse: Connections Between Institutional and Lay Natural Philosophical Texts in Medieval England
Translations of works containing Arabic and ancient Greek knowledge of the philosophical and mechanical underpinnings of the natural world—a field of study called natural philosophy—were disseminated throughout twelfth-century England. During the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, institutional …
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Improving instruments: equatoria, astrolabes, and the practices of monastic astronomy in late medieval England
Histories of medieval astronomy have brought to light a rich textual tradition, of treatises and tables composed and computed, transmitted and translated across Europe and beyond. These have been supplemented by fruitful inquiry into the material culture of astronomy, especially the instruments …