Astrolabe

GPTKB entity

Statements (52)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf scientific instrument
gptkbp:category gptkb:navigation
historic site
scientific instrument
gptkbp:component rule
alidade
mater
rete
gptkbp:depictedIn gptkb:religious_art
Renaissance art
medieval manuscripts
gptkbp:displayedAt gptkb:British_Museum
gptkb:Louvre_Museum
gptkb:Museum_of_the_History_of_Science,_Oxford
gptkbp:etymology Greek: 'astrolabos' (star-taker)
gptkbp:hasType linear astrolabe
mariner's astrolabe
planispheric astrolabe
spherical astrolabe
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Astrolabe
gptkbp:influenced European navigation
development of planisphere
development of sextant
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:Ptolemaic_system
Islamic science
Greek astronomy
gptkbp:inventedBy gptkb:ancient_Greece
gptkb:Hipparchus
gptkbp:material brass
wood
gptkbp:popularizedBy gptkb:Islamic_astronomers
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:armillary_sphere
quadrant
planisphere
gptkbp:replacedBy gptkb:octant
sextant
gptkbp:shape circular
gptkbp:usedBy astronomer
navigators
astrologers
gptkbp:usedFor gptkb:navigation
timekeeping
astrology
measuring altitude of celestial bodies
gptkbp:usedIn gptkb:Islamic_Golden_Age
gptkb:ancient_China
gptkb:medieval_Europe
gptkb:ancient_Persia
ancient India
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Héloïse
gptkb:Antiquity
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6