{"id":17434,"date":"2021-03-10T19:55:40","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T19:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/dkeller\/?p=17434"},"modified":"2021-03-10T22:10:42","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T22:10:42","slug":"introduction-to-astrolabes-history-design-and-how-they-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/dkeller\/2021\/03\/10\/introduction-to-astrolabes-history-design-and-how-they-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction to astrolabes: history, design and how they work."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Introduction to astrolabes: history, design and how they work.\" width=\"956\" height=\"538\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QN7ZNPaLrQo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Ancient astrolabes are genuine pieces of art and clever astronomical calculators. This presentation will introduce mariner&#8217;s astrolabes and other types, and will explain in details how a planispheric astrolabe is built and how it works. Many drawings are taken from Shadows Pro, a shareware software that can precisely draw and animate astrolabes.<br \/>\nMore info on www.shadowspro.com<\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s a guy who has built one!<br \/>\n<iframe title=\"Making the Astrolabe\" width=\"956\" height=\"538\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8U7ED6k5NLg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ancient astrolabes are genuine pieces of art and clever astronomical calculators. This presentation will introduce mariner&#8217;s astrolabes and other types, and will explain in details how a planispheric astrolabe is built and how it works. Many drawings are taken from&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/dkeller\/2021\/03\/10\/introduction-to-astrolabes-history-design-and-how-they-work\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":17437,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-science","category-for-my-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/dkeller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/dkeller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/dkeller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/dkeller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/dkeller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17434"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/dkeller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17438,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/dkeller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17434\/revisions\/17438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/dkeller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/dkeller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/dkeller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/dkeller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}