Astrolabe Asineus tax-exempt By Radmila Topalovic and Tom

By Radmila Topalovic and Tom Kerss

at the Royal Observatory

Rudyerd's replacement became the first successful offshore-rock lighthouse in the world until it was destroyed in 1755 by a fire that started in the lantern

Date: circa 1685

for everyone with a love of salty breezes and a sense of adventure

Astrolabe Asineus tax-exempt By Radmila Topalovic and TomPerfected by Arabic and Persian astronomers, by the end of the seventeenth century, the Astrolabe was the most used instrument in the history of Astronomy. One of the basic tools for astronomy education, the astrolabe can be used to tell the time, during the day or the night and to find the time and length of both sunrise and sunset. It can also be used to identify celestial objects in the night sky in order to determine latitude. Still in use today,