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Featured picture
18th Century Persian astrolabe
Astrolabe
Photo credit:
Solipsist
An 18th-century
Persian
astrolabe
. Astrolabes are complicated
inclinometers
that used the position of the stars and planets to determine longitude and latitude; they were in use for this purpose from
Roman antiquity
through the
Renaissance
.
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