French ship Astrolabe (1811)
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Astrolabe was originally a horse-transport barge converted into an exploration ship of the French Navy. Originally named Coquille, she is famous for her travels with Jules Dumont d'Urville. The name d
Les Corvettes L'Astrolabe, watercolour by A. Mayer, 1838
Astrolabe and Zélée an anchor in Anna-Maria Bay (Nuku Hiva). Engraving by Louis Lebreton
Astrolabe making water on a floe, 6 February 1838.
Astrolabe and Zélée stranded in the Austral Ocean. Painting by Louis Lebreton
Astrolabe
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An astrolabe is an astronomical instrument dating to ancient times. It serves as a star chart and physical model of the visible half-dome of the sky. Its various functions also make it an elaborate in
French ship Astrolabe (1811)
…Navy. Originally named Coquille, she is famous for her travels with Jules Dumont d'Urville. The name derives from an early navigational instrument, the astrolabe, a precursor to the sextant. Louis-Isidore Duperrey commanded Coquille on its circumnavigation of the earth (1822–1825) with Jules Dumont d'Urville as…
North African, 9th century ce, planispheric astrolabe. Khalili Collection.
A modern astrolabe made in 2013, in Tabriz, Iran.
16th-century woodcut of the measurement of a building's height with an astrolabe
A modern reconstruction of the spherical astrolabe of Ptolemy, 2nd C.E., in Kotsanas Museum of Ancient Greek Technology, Athens.