Astrolabe

Foundations in Europe 1. Created around 500 B.C., Greek democracy was the beginning of the political system ruled by the people known as democracy. Citizens under the Greek democracy were directly participating on voting. However, a constituent of the democracy in Ancient Greece must be a male adult. (http://www.history.com/topics/ancient-history/ancient-greece-democracy) 2. The Roman Empire was a time period around 27 B.C. where rather than the people controlling the state in a republic, was…

Derek de Solla Price argues the need for a new disciplinary field that bridges the sciences and humanities in his book Science Since Babylon (1978), He makes his case with a series of essays that unpack a critical point regarding the history of science and its development to what we see today. Through his research, he has been able to make important discoveries and suggestions that lead to his argument addressing a call for an institutionalization for what he terms the “humanities of…

The South Pacific Island Nation of Fiji is not only an inviting and beautiful vacation destination, but its Islands are home to scenic wonders, both natural and man made .. Ever since high school I have wanted to visit Fiji, and often would wonder what it would be like to live there. Fiji consist of 333 Islands, about 110 of which are inhabited. (Thttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiji) The Fiji Islands are located near Australia, off the South-east coast of California. These Islands have very…

pumping water out of the ground efficiently for many people across Europe, were invented during this era. Other technological inventions of the Renaissance period included the following: the parachute(still used in military operations today), the astrolabe(used to make…

only did the Islamic people invent algebra they also “made advances in trigonometry, astronomy, and mapmaking” (document 5). They used two different tools which helped them with the discoveries of these different advancements and they were the “astrolabe and armillary sphere” (document 5). These are inventions that are still used today and we still base many of our new understanding of mathematics off of these ideas so without the Islamic achievements we may not have some of the simple tools…

allow the early men and women of ancient society to exhaust their curiosity was an efficient and effective means of transportation. During the early fifteenth century, improved means of transportation such as ships, and new innovations such as the astrolabe, allowed for a new era known as the Age of Exploration. With this new technology of the fifteenth century, European nations began to colonize quickly with intentions of becoming a global empire. One European nation that began to take…

competed for superiority over one another and desired to be the most powerful, with increased land, superior power was possible. The desire for wealth, land, and to spread their religion, with advancements in sailing such as maps, caravels, compasses, astrolabe, and printing press led to the beginning of the age of European exploration. Portugal's discovery of a sea route…

In the late 1400's as Trade Goods became more common by way of sea, Europeans were able to obtain advanced navigational tools such as the compass from China and the astrolabe from the Arabs. Everyone wanted in on this business of Trade Goods. It was lucrative and powerful. It was no different for sailor and explorer, Christopher Columbus, an Italian seaman from Genoa. Christopher Columbus desired to explore new trade…

The magnetic compass that allows explorers to know what direction they were going. The astrolabe which helped sailors find their latitude based on the angle of the sun. And also the lead line helped explorers because it showed them how deep the ocean was at their location and it also could give them a sample of the ocean floor. All of these…

Obscurantism is associated with the Medieval Age immediately. We instantly think that it was a time when cultural, social and economic progress stopped abruptly, while the taste for war destroyed and bloodied everything. However, this association is still a stereotype. It is true that the Middle Ages was a period of conflict, famine and misery. A period in which the social system was unjust and free men were the exception, but it was not always so. Not everything was sinister and terrible in…