MEASURING THE SOLAR ALTITUDE
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Measuring the solar altitude with a mariner's astrolabe. The astrolabe was the most important astronomical instrument during the middle ages.

From Adriaan Metius:
De genuino usu utrisque globi tractatus, Franecker,1624.



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