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Definition of Astrolabes
1. astrolabe [n] - See also: astrolabe
Lexicographical Neighbors of Astrolabes
Literary usage of Astrolabes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Archaeological Journal by Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland Central Committee, Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (1911)
"SOME EUROPEAN AND ORIENTAL astrolabes.1 87 LEWIS EVANS, ... astrolabes, or
projections of the sphere on a disc-shaped instrument, to which the word ..."
2. A Guide to the Exhibition Galleries by British Museum (1880)
"... such as astrolabes, quadrants, and dials of various kinds. Cases 116-121.
ENGLISH POTTERY. ... astrolabes ..."
3. ... A Guide to the Mediaeval Room and to the Specimens of Mediaeval and by Ormonde Maddock Dalton, Charles Hercules Read (1907)
"In the middle of the cases : along the back, Oriental astrolabes of the eleventh
and thirteenth centuries ; astrolabes made at Antwerp at the end of the ..."
4. Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal by Asiatic Society of Bengal, Asiatic Society (Calcutta, India) (1891)
"You know well that until very recently captains of native ships, who had no
chronometers nor quadrants, depended entirely upon their astrolabes. ..."
5. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"In fact the modern equatorial, and the altitude and azimuth circle are astrolabes
in the strictest and oldest meaning of the term; and Tycho in one of his ..."
6. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1893)
"... speaks only of astrolabes, noting the greater accuracy obtained by the new
method over that in. which the large wooden astrolabes were still used. ..."
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