I completely get that emotional feeling of actually seeing a piece made so long ago. I told my family when I finally see Greek pottery from the classical age or if I'm ever lucky enough to see a Minoan Frescoe, I would cry. It would be an amazing moment.
For the scientific integrity, we must mention the great role that Muslim scientists played in developing the astrolabe, which entered Europe via Andalusia. Many stars have Arabic names.
Beautifully put :] A fuller understanding of the unity of transmission that scientific understanding has gone through will bring all peoples closer together.
@R Yes, but astrolabes as a device were transmitted directly to Western Europe via the Islamic-Arabic scholars in Al-Andalus (The Iberian Peninsula). Geoffrey Chaucer's Astrolabe Treatise, the first documented in English, takes directly from the adapted al-Khwarizmi astrolabe treatise by al-Majriti and al-Saffar under the Umayyad Caliphate.
Moors use it to navigate, the very first Astrolabes are in Arabic for a reason. It’s funny how they give credit to Greeks for inventing everything when they themselves was taught in Egypt. All of them were students of Ancient Khemit.
@@audijohns9187 Awesome comment! Would you mind suggesting your favorite articles/dissertations/books/papers on Greeks and Ancient Khemit? I'm very interested!
@@audijohns9187 the very first astrolabes are greek, and the ancient egyptians WERE greek. Not only does their mythology state this, that they came from Egypt to populate greece, DNA has now proven this.
Great video I loved learning how it's used.. There are over a thousand applications for it that AlKhwarismi back in the Islamic world much earlier had mentioned with his astrolabe.
I watched this alongside reading the chapter 'Astrolabe and Albion' in the book. It's very hard to get one's head around these scientific concepts - quite humbling when compared to our modern stereotypes of the so called dark ages, particularly when mention Chaucer's introductory texts written for his 10 year old son! I am not great with scientific concepts but very much enjoying the book.
The book is excellent - I'm making my way through it myself right now. It's actually made me want to pursue acquiring my own Astrolabe - it seems like something that will be great fun to show students, to give them an idea of how people of the past used to do things.
@@sebfalk1980 Indeed! I know I'll be showing off a few things in the future whenever I wind up getting my history endorsement for teaching. Thank you again!
The horse who squashed the globe was smart. He knew that all measurements must be made from a level earth. Level meaning sea level and horizontal meaning flat like a horizon.
One thing I do with my modern smartphone is track man-made satellites, which is something the makers of astrolabes would never have dreamed of, but never the less it makes me wonder if I could do that on an astrolabe
What kind of emotional experience would you have once you realize that the astrolabe is a geocentric flat and stationary earth device? Same with the anti-Catherine mechanism. Everyone back then knew the Earth was flat in Stationary. They didn’t believe it was. They knew it was. Your story of a planus fear being a smashed spherical device by a horse was hilarious though. Keep researching. Try questioning your indoctrination.
There's nothing wrong with it. Astronomy and Science have pseudoscientific roots- Astronomy came from Astrology, Chemistry from Alchemy, etc. You would've believed Geocentrism too if you were born back then during that time period.
@@Vedant-zh7ry 7 is pretty old for a young kid. If their son was 4 I'd say they were lying, but I can believe 7 - especially since it's something I'd have said at 7 regarding cool science stuff.
Wonderfully informative. But how was it even possible to do a 9-min. video on the astrolabe without mentioning, not even once, the debt to high Islamic culture. That seem very odd. I know this is an historian of the European Middle Ages, but still. Am I missing something?
I do cover it in my book - and of course medieval Europeans were well aware of their debt to the Islamic world. This video was more about how the instrument works and what it was used for.
@@sebfalk1980 Understood! I will have to read the book. Very nice video, and very clear explanation of the astrolabe. It's easy to leave a critical comment like this, and I should have done more research on the full picture of what you had to say.
Thanks to the Muslim scientists who invented that instrument which is the fact you deliberately ignored during this video. They still don't know how to use it in Europe, perhaps you can Ask Mr. Glen Cooper about this masterpiece you are holding.
No no those nothing to do with Greece and the Greek history. The astrolabe was made by the Muslim people in the golden Islamic time. Please make your researches complete before you make a video to teach people. And if you do make sure that you give the truth information on the story
Unfortunately It was actually stolen from the muslims in the east and credit was given to the ancient Greeks. Sad we have liars re writing history and altering the hidden truth. I feel embarrassed for those thieves couldn’t brag about their own inventions lol #Al-ʻIjliyyah
#This is a 14th-century instrument used to make astronomical measurements that is in the Geneva Museum of the History of Science. Zoom in and see! You can find Sanskrit script engraved on it! In which you on this no
little deciever...he wants you to think it's a squashed globe...no,no,no the dome of the sky is flattened.. the firmament... it can tell you the altitude TO THE STARS....oppps we won't mention that
#This is a 14th-century instrument used to make astronomical measurements that is in the Geneva Museum of the History of Science. Zoom in and see! You can find Sanskrit script engraved on it! In which you on this no#This is a 14th-century instrument used to make astronomical measurements that is in the Geneva Museum of the History of Science. Zoom in and see! You can find Sanskrit script engraved on it! In which you on this no
when one can say where any star will be or where was example 3063 year in the future/in the past on for may, 5 at 3 a.m. from any place (exactly from Times Square ex) - it means that person fully understand movement of stars, and there is Nothing to add about this movement. and another one can make funny animations how stars moving and where and think as laughable old theories but reality says "if his theory allow him to predict any star in any time from any place - means his theory perfect and you are making cartoons"
1:50 That is not how the Astrolabe was made at all and had nothing to do with Ptolemy - Mariam Al Astrulabi a Muslim Woman created the Astrolabe! Please state facts and not "tales".
Why didnt you give credit to the Islamic world for doing significant and critical developments on the astrolobe? This video is factually invalid in terms of the history it tells.
What people have high knowledge at the middle ages so can make and use this tool?.. euro?!🤭😁..at that time europe people telled by church earth was flat🤣🤣🤣🤣
Cuz Ptolemy story is only a story. Astrolabe comes from Arabic Asturlāb. Although it was invented in the Hellenistic civilisation and later refined by Muslims, with al-Khwarizmi explaining more uses of the instrument.
