The University of Sharjah hosted an astrolabe workshop in which western scientists showed participants how an astronomical instrument made by an ancient Muslim scholar nearly 1,000 years ago measured ...

An 11th-century artifact sitting in an Italian museum has been identified as a scientific instrument inscribed with an incredible surprise: signs of use by Muslim, Hebrew and Christian users. Federica ...

The identification of an eleventh century Islamic astrolabe bearing both Arabic and Hebrew inscriptions makes it one of the oldest examples ever discovered and one of only a handful known in the world ...

Lost & Found This 1,000-Year-Old Smartphone Just Dialed In By Franz Lidz and Clara Vannucci For 2,000 years, celestial observers mapped the heavens with astonishingly precise instruments called ...

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An 11th-century astrolabe — a device used for accurately calculating the date and time based on star positions — found in a museum in Verona, Italy, is clear evidence for scientific exchange and ...

Besides ability to provide precise measurements of altitude, local time, and position of starts, al-Khujandi’s astrolabe is of astounding beauty. Credit: The Museum of Islamic Art, Doha: Marc ...