单词 | sea astrolabe |
释义 | > as lemmassea astrolabe Any of various portable instruments formerly used for making astronomical measurements, esp. the altitudes of celestial objects, typically taking the form of a graduated metal disc with rotating parts and a sighting arm. Also: (more fully mariner's astrolabe, sea astrolabe) a similar but simpler and heavier instrument, lacking a rete, used for determining latitude at sea from observations of the altitude of a star or the noon sun.Astrolabes first appeared in ancient Greece and were further developed in the Islamic world. The construction of astrolabes changed as their purpose developed, but they were generally used for locating and predicting the positions of celestial objects, determining local time or latitude, and surveying. The astrolabe formed the basis of the planisphere. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > cosmology > science of observation > astronomical instruments > [noun] > astrolabe astrolabea1393 ars tablea1425 a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vi. l. 1890 With him his Astellabre he nom, Which was of fin gold precious With pointz and cercles merveilous. c1400 ( G. Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe (Cambr. Dd.3.53) (1872) Prol. 1 To lerne the tretis of the astrelabie..A suffisaunt astralabie as for owre orizonte [also, passim, astrolabie, astrilabie]. c1410 (c1390) G. Chaucer Miller's Tale (Harl. 7334) (1885) l. 3209 His almagest..His astrylabe [c1405 Ellesmere Astrelabie, c1415 Corpus Oxf. astrelabre, c1430 Cambr. Gg.4.27 astellabre, c1425 Petworth aster-laboure]. ?a1425 (c1400) Mandeville's Trav. (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 120 I self haue mesured it [sc. the lodesterre] be the Astrolabre. a1529 J. Skelton Speke Parrot in Certayne Bks. (?1545) sig. A.iiii In the astroloby To pronostycate. 1590 J. Blagrave Baculum Familliare xxix. 63 If anie man woulde doe it from the mast, then let him take the angle downe to the bottome of the ship with a sea Astrolabe. 1594 T. Blundeville Exercises vii. xx. f. 318v The limbe of the Mariners Astrolabe is traced..with three Circles, making two spaces to containe therein the degrees and numbers of altitude. 1613 J. Saris Let. in A. Farrington Eng. Factory in Japan (1991) I. 86 Yow might have carid my astralobia alonge w'th yow. a1626 L. Andrewes XCVI Serm. (1629) xv. 142 Never a Chaldæn of them all could take it, with his Astrolabe. 1657 Inventory 6 July in J. H. Pleasants Arch. Maryland (1937) LIV. 107 Itt a brase Counting Table: an Osterlobb... Itt 2 pr of Compasis. 1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 192 I took the Horizon with my Astrolabe, and having put my Dioptra into it, I turn'd my self towards the Sea. 1744 J. Ralph Astrologer ii. i. 30 I'll hasten home, and with Astrolabe and Meteoroscope, find out the Cusp and Alfridaria. 1797 Encycl. Brit. II. 420/2 An armillary astrolabe, like that which had been used by Hipparchus and Ptolemy. 1834 Penny Cycl. II. 525 Hipparchus is the first who can be supposed to have made use of an astrolabe. 1871 G. Meredith Harry Richmond I. iv. 50 The Barber hurried away..to consult his pretended astrolabe in the next room. 1913 Kerry Archaeol. Mag. 2 79 The Sea Astrolabe was used by Columbus..and by Vasco de Gama. 1938 D. C. Peattie Prairie Grove v. 23 Robert Du Gay sat with muskets lying about his feet and in his hand the bronze plaque that was combined compass and astrolabe. 1955 Geogr. Jrnl. 121 3 Such determinations were frequently made..using the quadrant, the dorsum of an astrolabe or, from about 1450 onwards, the mariners' astrolabe. 1974 Sci. Amer. May 8/2 This modern descendant of the astrolabe comes packed in a leatherette case with a rete. 1990 Technol. & Culture 31 867 The mariner's astrolabe..was one of the most important of the..instruments for navigational use. 2005 R. Rankin Brightonomicon 6 I spied a brass astrolabe and numerous pieces of ancient scientific equipment, all brazen cogs and ball-governors. < as lemmas |
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