{"id":11016,"date":"2012-02-23T02:37:35","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T02:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=11016"},"modified":"2012-02-23T02:59:46","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T02:59:46","slug":"astrolabes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/02\/23\/astrolabes\/","title":{"rendered":"Astrolabes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mhs.ox.ac.uk\/astrolabe\/catalogue\/browseReport\/Astrolabe_ID=164.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/astrolabe1.jpg\" alt=\"astrolabe1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Planispheric Astrolabe (and also below) from Persia,\u00a01675\/6 (A.H. 1086). Made by Muhammad Amin.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>One of the many astrolabes from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mhs.ox.ac.uk\/astrolabe\/\" target=\"_blank\">Museum of the History of Science<\/a>, Oxford, who describe their collection as &#8220;the world&#8217;s largest and most important&#8221;. There are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mhs.ox.ac.uk\/astrolabe\/catalogue\/categoryReport.html\" target=\"_blank\">pages and pages<\/a> of these beautiful instruments with large photographs of each in a disassembled state, the better to see the shape of their retes. The site also has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mhs.ox.ac.uk\/astrolabe\/exhibition\/\" target=\"_blank\">introductory area<\/a> describing their multiple uses and showing some unusual examples such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mhs.ox.ac.uk\/astrolabe\/exhibition\/clock.htm\" target=\"_blank\">an astrolabe clock<\/a>, and an incredible <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mhs.ox.ac.uk\/astrolabe\/exhibition\/spherical.htm\" target=\"_blank\">spherical astrolabe<\/a> from 1480.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mhs.ox.ac.uk\/astrolabe\/catalogue\/browseReport\/Astrolabe_ID=164.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/astrolabe2.jpg\" alt=\"astrolabe2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mhs.ox.ac.uk\/astrolabe\/catalogue\/browseReport\/Astrolabe_ID=164.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/astrolabe3.jpg\" alt=\"astrolabe3.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The rete.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/06\/21\/the-midsummer-chronophage\/\">The Midsummer Chronophage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Planispheric Astrolabe (and also below) from Persia,\u00a01675\/6 (A.H. 1086). Made by Muhammad Amin. One of the many astrolabes from the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, who describe their collection as &#8220;the world&#8217;s largest and most important&#8221;. There are pages and pages of these beautiful instruments with large photographs of each in a disassembled &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/02\/23\/astrolabes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Astrolabes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,13],"tags":[3389],"class_list":["post-11016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-science","tag-astrolabe"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-2RG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}