A rare astronomy tool that helped medieval scientists tell time will remain in Britain after the British Museum scrambled to come up with the money to buy it. The brass device, called an astrolabe ...

A group of artists will stage performances and interventions at the Getty Center inspired by its exhibition, The Wondrous Cosmos in Medieval Manuscripts. Every summer, the Getty Center has given free ...

LONDON — A rare astronomy tool that helped medieval scientists tell time will remain in Britain after the British Museum scrambled to come up with the money to buy it. The brass device, called an ...

Edited and translated, with an astronomical commentary, by Bernard R. Goldstein. (Yale Studies in the History of Science and Medicine, 2.) Pp. x + 408. (Yale University Press: New Haven and London, ...

There is nothing particularly tricky about sundials–unless you were a medieval nobleman and the sundial you carried in your pocket was your primary method for telling time. In that case you might have ...

Rachel Feltman: These days, science and magic are generally thought of as being diametrically opposed: fact versus fiction, reason versus fantasy, modern sensibilities versus archaic misconceptions.

Foreword; Preface; Contents; Chapter-1; The Origins of Astronomy; Human Experience of the Sky; Figures in the Sky: The Constellations; The Ancients' Astronomy; Chapter-2; The Babylonians; The ...