Archeoastronomy & Old Astronomy Instruments in Iran

July 21, 2004 1:15 PM

Archeoastronomy & Old Astronomy Instruments in Iran.
posted by hama7 (3 comments total)

Nice pictures. Cryptic text. Terrible rendering on Safari (seems OK in IE).
posted by Kwantsar at 3:44 PM on July 21, 2004

...which the current Iranian regime could use to launch a missile that could reach the U.S. in... say... uh... six weeks. (Couldn't resist)
posted by wendell at 3:53 PM on July 21, 2004

I had an ESL student years ago from Afghanistan, who used to insist, "You know--one of us helped NASA put a man on the moon!"

It was a couple of years later that I realized he was talking about Al-Biruni, whose contributions to science and math (including spherical trigonometry), did indeed contribute to putting a man on the moon.
posted by gimonca at 4:39 PM on July 21, 2004