Small Persian Astrolab

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Luciano Tempo’s predilection for bringing the past and the present together lives in this reconstruction of an astrolabe. With ... more Luciano Tempo’s predilection for bringing the past and the present together lives in this reconstruction of an astrolabe. With allusions to the Antikythera Mechanism, the astrolab is the ancient world’s answer to IBM’s Watson, able to examine any number of conundrums in spherical astronomy. Greek, Arab, Persian and European scholars tracked the heavens with such hand-spun machinery. With engraved notation and decoration. This is a smaller version of another astrolab offered by Living Green on Decaso. less