Astrolabes Sentence Examples

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  • Tycho's armillae were astrolabes.

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  • Beside their use for determining astronomical events astrolabes were used as teaching tools in the late Middle Ages.

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  • No material advance was made on Ptolemy's instrument until Tycho Brahe, whose elaborate armillary spheres passing into astrolabes are figured in his Astronjmiae Instauratae Mechanica.

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  • In fact the modern equatorial, and the altitude and azimuth circle are astrolabes in the strictest and oldest meaning of the term; and Tycho in one of his astrolabes came so near the modern equatorial that it may be taken as the first of the kind.

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