The Way to the Stars: Build Your Own Astrolabe

More Information About Astrolabes

The Whipple Museum of the History and Philosophy of Science

• an in-depth look at a 14th-century English astrolabe

Oxford Museum of the History of Science

• The Astrolabe, East and West, an online exhibition
• images of astrolabes from their catalogue

The British Museum

• astrolabes are some of the highlights from the British Museum collections
• In collaboration with the BBC: A History of the World in 100 Objects (object number 62)

National Maritime Museum

• Astrolabes in their catalogue

Institute and Museum of the History of Science, Florence

• Introduction to the astrolabe and its varieties; astronomical, and terrestrial uses of the astrolabe

Geoffrey Chaucher, Treatise on the Astrolabe

• Online edition taken from The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, ed. by F.N. Robinson, 2nd edn (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1957)

Supported by a grant from the Friends of the Center for the History of Physics, American Institute of Physics