Sentence example with the word 'astrolabe'

astrolabe

Definition n. an early form of sextant

Last update: September 30, 2015

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The principle of the astrolabe is explained in fig.   [Please select]

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Port Western, Bass's Straits, as stated in the Voyage of the Astrolabe.   [Please select]

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This man used words as a master mariner would use compass and astrolabe.   [Please select]

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That he was a great master in astronomy, is plain by his discourses of the Astrolabe.   [Please select]

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120) it had led to the successive inventions of the anaphoric clock and of the planispheric astrolabe.   [Please select]

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In the astrolabe, an openwork metal rete containing markings for the stars, etc.   [Please select]

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It is an astrolabe, dated 1221-22 and signed by the maker, MuḼammad b.   [Please select]

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The astrolabe was hung on a mast in such a way that one bar was horizontal and the other could be moved until through its sights some known star could be seen.   [Please select]

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The astrolabe was not so useful as the compass, for it could be used only on clear days or nights.   [Please select]

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