Noun:

उच्‍चता मापने के लिए पूर्वकाल में प्रयुक्‍त युत्र-विशेष, नक्षत्र-यंत्र, वेधयंत्र,

astrolabe's Usage Examples:

- Persian Astrolabe (c.1712) Inscribed In Arabic.

Morley, Description of Astrolabe of Shah Husain; M.

The astrolabe quadrant or cross-staff enabled the mariner to determine"his latitude with a certain amount of accuracy, but for his longitude 1 See fig.

He was taught the use of the astrolabe (which Prince Yakov Dolgoruki, with intent to please, had brought him from Paris) by a Dutchman, Franz Timmerman, who also instructed him in the rudiments of geometry and fortifications.

Communal dwellings on a much smaller scale occur at Meroka, east of the Astrolabe mountains.

Huggins, "The Astrolabe" (Astrophysical Journal, 1894); Penny Cyclopaedia, article "Astrolabe;" R.

Chaucer wrote a treatise on the astrolabe; Milton constantly refers to planetary influences; in Shakespeare's King Lear, Gloucester and Edmund represent respectively the old and the new faith.

He was the author also of a mathematical work on the use of the astrolabe and of a book (Muhit, " the ocean ") on the navigation of the Indian seas.

These works are lost; but their titles, combined with expressions in the letters of Synesius, who consulted her about the construction of an astrolabe and a hydroscope, indicate that she devoted herself specially to astronomy and mathematics.

The principle of the astrolabe is explained in fig.

Synonyms:

sextant,