Checked content

File:Astrolabe-Persian-18C.jpg

Featured picture star This is a featured picture, which means that members of the community have identified it as one of the finest images on the English Wikipedia, adding significantly to its accompanying article. If you have a different image of similar quality, be sure to upload it using the proper free license tag, add it to a relevant article, and nominate it.
Wikipedia logo This image was selected as picture of the day on the English Wikipedia for December 31, 2004, and March 13, 2006.
Description
English: An 18th Century Persian astrolabe – maker unknown. The points of the curved spikes on the front rete plate, mark the positions of the brightest stars. The name of each star being labeled at the base of each spike. The back plate, or mater is engraved with projected coordinate lines. From the Whipple Museum of the History of Science in Cambridge.
Deutsch: Persisches Astrolabium aus dem 18. Jahrhundert
Español: Astrolabio persa del siglo XVIII.
فارسی: یک اسطرلاب ایرانی متعلق به سدهٔ ۱۸ میلادی. سازنده نامعلوم است.
Français : Astrolabe persan du XVIII siècle – Auteur inconnu. L'extrémité des pointes recourbées de la plaque avant (ou rete) correspond aux positions des principales étoiles. Le nom de chaque étoile est gravé au pied de chaque pointe. La plaque arrière, ou mater porte les lignes des coordonnées célestes. Whipple Museum, Cambridge, Angleterre.
Italiano: Astrolabio persiano del 18° secolo. Museo Whipple di storia della scienza, Cambridge
Nederlands: Perzisch astrolabium uit 18e eeuw
Lietuvių: XVIII amžiaus Persų astroliabija
Date 5 November 2004
Source Photo taken by Andrew Dunn
Author Andrew Dunn
Permission
( Reusing this file)

Andrew Dunn uploaded it first to the English Wikipedia on 6. Nov. 2004 and released it there under CC-BY-SA-2.0

Cscr-former.svg

Wikimedia CommonsWikipedia
This formerly was a featured picture on Wikimedia Commons ( Featured pictures) and was considered one of the finest images.

If you have an image of better quality that can be published under a suitable copyright license, be sure to upload it, tag it, and nominate it.
Picture of the day

This image was selected as picture of the day on Wikimedia Commons for 4 January 2005. It was captioned as follows:

English: 18th century Persian astrolabe

The image history at EN:

  • 09:12, 23 November 2004 . . Solipsist (341661 bytes) (Lighter and more contrast on dial)
  • 18:17, 8 November 2004 . . Solipsist (300740 bytes) (slight colour adjust)
  • 14:33, 8 November 2004 . . Solipsist (310423 bytes) (Lighter version)
  • 11:02, 6 November 2004 . . Solipsist (274409 bytes) (An 18th Century Persian astrolabe - maker unknown. From the Whipple Museum in Cambridge.)


Photograph © Andrew Dunn, 5 November 2004.
Website: http://www.andrewdunnphoto.com/
I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license:
w:en:Creative Commons
attribution share alike		 This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license.
You are free:
  • to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
  • to remix – to adapt the work
Under the following conditions:
  • attribution – You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work).
  • share alike – If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one.

The following pages on Schools Wikipedia link to this image (list may be incomplete):

Schools Wikipedia and SOS Children

Wikipedia for Schools is one of SOS Children's Villages' many educational projects. SOS Childrens Villages is a global charity founded in 1949 to give children who have lost everything the childhood they deserve. Why not try to learn more about child sponsorship?