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Astrolabes and Stuff: October 2014
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Wednesday, 8 October 2014. Ships, Clocks and Stars. I recently visited, and very much enjoyed, the exhibition at the National Maritime Museum about the quest for longitude. It's on until 4th January. And I highly recommend it. I liked it so much I wrote a review of it for the Science Museum journal. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Ships, Clocks and Stars. My name is Seb Falk. I'm a medieval historian and historian of science. I'm also a sailor, singer, marathon-runner and dog-lover. Seb Falk on Twitter.
Astrolabes and Stuff: The start of summer?
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Monday, 20 June 2016. The start of summer? Facebook greeted me today with this little graphic:. Given that this is the radar picture over the UK this morning, it's not surprising that several Facebook users. Felt a certain irony. But in what sense is it the first day of summer? As the Met Office explain in a lovely clear blog post. Is often thought of as beginning on 1 May.). Since our calendar years are of unequal length (remember 29 February? The solstice doesn't occur at exactly the same time every ye...
Astrolabes and Stuff: December 2014
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Tuesday, 16 December 2014. String Theory - Medieval-style. Apologies for the long hiatus! I've been busy with lots of things, among them the birth of my first child. I'll post his horoscope here soon! But first, here's a few thoughts I've been mulling over for a while. My research centres on scientific instruments. I study descriptions and images. Of them, attempt to follow the instructions. Them, examine the instruments themselves. Equatorium of Jupiter, from Peter Apian's. Before being incorporated int...
Astrolabes and Stuff: Medieval finger-counting on the BBC
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Wednesday, 22 June 2016. Medieval finger-counting on the BBC. Hand of Bede" from Bodleian Library, Oxford,. MS Digby 56, f. 165v (12th century). Yesterday I had an opportunity to present some medieval science on the BBC. I had been asked to contribute to " Free Thinking. On Radio 3. The theme of the programme was "Hands", so I decided to fill my allocated 4 minutes by talking about early medieval finger-counting. You can listen to the full programme here. In a great edition by Faith Wallis. And will be e...
Astrolabes and Stuff: June 2015
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Friday, 5 June 2015. Angry Birds in Medieval Manuscripts. I'm just back from two very enjoyable days in Oxford, at the Bodleian Library's wonderful new Weston Library. Apart from looking at some fascinating and important manuscripts, I snuck a peek at their Marks of Genius exhibition,. Which I'd strongly recommend if you're in town (it's free, and on until 20 September). The view from the David Room on the fifth floor of the Weston Library is pretty special:. MS Ashmole 1796, ff. 188v-189r. So I know how...
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We are sad to let you know that this website's owner, James E. Morrison, passed away in April 2016. We know how much many people were informed, educated and enlightened by his passion for astrolabes. We can't express enough how your interest touched him. Unfortunately, all correspondence to his email and postal mail addresses will remain unacknowledged. We are sincerely sorry for this and we apologize for any inconvenience. The website will continue in its present form for the forseeable future. To a spe...
Astrolabes and Such | Discussion About Novel Ways to Teach Science and History
Discussion About Novel Ways to Teach Science and History. Published in: Uncategorized on May 14, 2012 at 5:34 pm Leave a Comment. Astrolabe talk at Ignite #4: Slides with Transcript. The Astrolabe: The First Computer (or Hello World! My presentation at Ignite #4 in summer 2009:. Banter because I was following a hilarious but unplanned improv comedy set). I was very interested in Astronomy when I was very young…. And I had these great astronomy books that had pictures like this,. Go to slide 2). Had one o...
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Sailing, yachts, adventure and sailing around the world! Thanks for visiting my blog. My name is Viki and my dream is to sail around the world! I have had this dream since I was a child, and about four years ago I decided to make it my ten year plan – aiming for a nice round number of the year 2020 which seemed a comfortable way off. However now its suddenly down to six years! What will we need to have on board? Where are we going to go when we get it and how about some more adventures in the mean time?
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Wednesday, 21 December 2016. How short is the shortest day? As you probably know, Yule (Jól) was the pagan Nordic celebration of the bleak midwinter. And it's the winter solstice today - the shortest day of the year. What does that mean? From it (or directly towards it if you're reading this in Madagascar). Notice that the first explanation I just gave - and the word solstice. They published this morning. Of course you know that the winter days are shorter in Aberdeen than they are in Aberystwyth - so at...
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Astrolabe, astrolabes, astrolabe for sale, working replicas directly from astrolabeshop.com. The Product Families :. Lacquered Metal or Brass. 11 astrolabes from 80 to $350. Dual map: 2 maps. 5 globes from 130 to $350. 2 spheres from 190 to $430. 6 articles from 150 to $400. An astrolabe is a very ancient astronomical computer for solving problems relating to time (what time is it? And the position of the Sun and stars in the sky. This is done by drawing the sky on the face of the astrolabe. All our astr...
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