A rare astronomy tool that helped medieval scientists tell time will remain in Britain after the British Museum scrambled to come up with the money to buy it. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get ...

Medieval chronicles occasionally recorded unusual astronomical events that puzzled observers of the time. One account describes a night when witnesses claimed the moon appeared to split in two. Such ...

A group of artists will stage performances and interventions at the Getty Center inspired by its exhibition, The Wondrous Cosmos in Medieval Manuscripts. Every summer, the Getty Center has given free ...

Foreword; Preface; Contents; Chapter-1; The Origins of Astronomy; Human Experience of the Sky; Figures in the Sky: The Constellations; The Ancients' Astronomy; Chapter-2; The Babylonians; The ...

Edited and translated, with an astronomical commentary, by Bernard R. Goldstein. (Yale Studies in the History of Science and Medicine, 2.) Pp. x + 408. (Yale University Press: New Haven and London, ...

LONDON — A rare astronomy tool that helped medieval scientists tell time will remain in Britain after the British Museum scrambled to come up with the money to buy it. The brass device, called an ...

LONDON — A device that helped medieval scientists tell time will remain in Britain after the British Museum scrambled to come up with the money to buy it. The brass astronomy tool, called an astrolabe ...