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An Iranian
astrolabe
, handmade from brass by
Jacopo Koushan
in 2013. Astrolabes are elaborate
inclinometers
used by
astronomers
,
navigators
, and
astrologers
from
classical antiquity
, through the
Islamic Golden Age
and European
Middle Ages
, until the
Renaissance
. These could be used for a variety of purposes, including predicting the positions of the
Sun
,
Moon
,
planets
, and
stars
; determining local time given local latitude; surveying;
triangulation
; calculating the
qibla
; and finding the times for
salat
.
Photograph:
Masoud Safarniya
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<
Template:POTD
Picture of the day archives
:
2014 November
<
2014 November 24
2014 November 26
>
Picture of the day
An Iranian
astrolabe
, handmade from brass by
Jacopo Koushan
in 2013. Astrolabes are elaborate
inclinometers
used by
astronomers
,
navigators
, and
astrologers
from
classical antiquity
, through the
Islamic Golden Age
and European
Middle Ages
, until the
Renaissance
. These could be used for a variety of purposes, including predicting the positions of the
Sun
,
Moon
,
planets
, and
stars
; determining local time given local latitude; surveying;
triangulation
; calculating the
qibla
; and finding the times for
salat
.
Photograph:
Masoud Safarniya
Archive
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More featured pictures...
This
picture of the day
has been
featured on Portal:History
.
Category
:
Wikipedia Picture of the day November 2014
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