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Перевод: astrolabe

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астролябия

Тезаурус:

1. The original Strasbourg clock probably contained, besides moving figures, an annual-calendar dial, and possibly a lunar dial and an astrolabe, but the instrument designed by Giovanni de' Dondi incorporated a perpetual calendar for all religious feasts, both fixed and movable, and also indicated the celestial motions of the sun, moon, and planets, including even the motions of the nodes of the moon's orbit, which take over eighteen years to make a complete revolution around the ecliptic.
2. It is attached to a Persian astrolabe of the early thirteenth century now in the Museum of the History of Science at Oxford.
3. The form of astrolabe used in medieval Europe, however, was derived from the Muslim type found in Spain.
4. The earliest surviving gearing from the Latin West is attached to a French astrolabe of about 1300, now in the Science Museum, London.
5. It is, therefore, not surprising that many portable instruments for the determination of time were required, including the chief instrument used by both Arabic and Latin astronomers, the astrolabe.
6. An early form of analogue computer, the astrolabe was primarily designed to solve problems of spherical trigonometry to shorten astronomical calculations.
7. On one fake astrolabe examined recently the faker had clearly got bored and resorted to an angle grinder to wear down the edges, leaving very characteristic scratches; unfortunately most fakers are much more painstaking!
8. An essential tool for enabling astronomers to advance beyond the stage reached by Bede was the astrolabe.
9. On the front of the astrolabe there was a thin plate (the tympan) on which was engraved a stereographic projection of the lines of altitude and azimuth (angular distance along the horizon) as they would be for an observer at a given latitude.
10. Moreover, although the astrolabe enabled long calculations to be avoided, the computing of planetary positions, for example, for casting a horoscope, still involved a considerable amount of work.
11. For example, it incorporated a globe of the heavens with a revolving sun and moon, an astrolabe showing the positions of the planets, statues which sounded bells, and a mechanical cock.
12. I at once seized my astrolabe and made a careful note of the time of full eclipse, which was a little more than three-quarters of an hour after the eleventh hour of the night.
13. Another, who did not pass by on the hour, might think, not of Death, but of the astrolabe showing the positions of the planets.