Astrolabes

August 4, 2004 6:01 PM

The Astrolabe:an instrument with a past and a future. You can even download your own Electric Astrolabe. (via finches' wings)
posted by Ufez Jones (4 comments total)

Geoffrey Chaucer: A Treatise on the Astrolabe c.. 1391
posted by homunculus at 6:07 PM on August 4, 2004

When I was earning my astrophysics degree, the very first few astronomy labs involved making and using my own astrolabe. I'm not which one is cooler ... the electronic astrolabe or the cardboard one I used.
posted by ewagoner at 6:38 PM on August 4, 2004

Also, the son of Abelard and Heloise.

You can even download your own Electric Astrolabe.
...only if you do that whole microsoft windows thing.
posted by milovoo at 9:52 AM on August 5, 2004

Since this deals with something in motion
there are officially too many puns to refer to Astro Glide
posted by Peter H at 11:08 AM on August 5, 2004