No it's not an astrolabe. An astrolabe is used to determine the altitude of objects above the horizon and hence you have to line it up with an object in the sky for it to be useful for navigation etc. This was used to display cycles over ten and even hundreds of months
I can't believe people are bothering to respond to this PR nonscense.. you'd never find me respoding to an advert thinly veiled as a story...probably...ahem, erm, yeah got me there
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No it's not an astrolabe. An astrolabe is used to determine the altitude of objects above the horizon and hence you have to line it up with an object in the sky for it to be useful for navigation etc. This was used to display cycles over ten and even hundreds of months
I can't believe people are bothering to respond to this PR nonscense.. you'd never find me respoding to an advert thinly veiled as a story...probably...ahem, erm, yeah got me there