Vintage Oriental Astrolabe Miniature, Astrolabe, Islamic Arab Astrolab,Zodiacs, Stars, Quadrants, Astronomy, Navigation Instrument

An astrolabe is an elaborate inclinometer, historically used by astronomers and navigators to measure the inclined position in the sky of a celestial body, day or night. It can thus be used to identify stars or planets, to determine local latitude given local time (and vice versa), to survey, or to triangulate. It was used in classical antiquity, the Islamic Golden Age, the European Middle Ages, and the Renaissance for all these purposes In the time interval between Ptolemy (2nd century AD) and