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TiciaVerveer , to random Dutch
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A remarkable astrolabe from Al-Andalus, hitherto unknown and unpublished, is preserved in the Fondazione Museo Miniscalchi-Erizzo in Verona. It is datable to the eleventh century and features added Hebrew and Latin inscriptions.

https://brill.com/view/journals/nun/39/1/article-p163_9.xml

https://phys.org/news/2024-03-rare-eleventh-century-astrolabe-discovery.html

Photo credit: Federica Gigante

ClaireFromClare ,
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@TiciaVerveer New article about this amazing astrolabe & some of the well-deserved attention since publication by Dr Federica Gigante: https://www.medievalists.net/2024/03/medieval-astrolabe-reveals-cross-cultural-scientific-exchange/
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bibliolater , to medievodons
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"With its added translations from Arabic into Hebrew, the astrolabe closely recalls the recommendations prescribed by the Spanish Jewish polymath Abraham Ibn Ezra (1089–1167) in the earliest surviving treatise on the astrolabe in the Hebrew language written in 1146 precisely in Verona."

Gigante, F. (2024). A Medieval Islamic Astrolabe with Hebrew Inscriptions in Verona: The Seventeenth-Century Collection of Ludovico Moscardo. Nuncius 39, 1, 163-192, Available From: Brill https://doi.org/10.1163/18253911-bja10095 [Accessed 04 March 2024] @science @medievodons

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