Random pic 18 April 2025
Astrolabe, British Museum https://flic.kr/p/2qUbUkZMade for use at Spanish sites from Ibiza to Saragossa, this astrolabe features both Arabic and Latin script. The Latin was added at a later date - a neat metaphor for Europe basing its scientific knowledge on Islamic foundations, much of which passed north across the Pyrenees and into Western Europe around the time this instrument was made.
Spain, 1200-1400
[Text from BM label]
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