Astrolabe is used for to tell the time in the 13th century. They are really expensive. Astrolabes help us to connect with the night sky. There are different types of astrolabes that have been made in different sizes. They are attractive. Geoffery Chaucer was the  person wrote an instruction manuel for astrolabe. if you want to use the astrolabe to know the time there are five different steps that you have to use.
1. select a star.
2. measure the altitude.
3. identify the star infront of the device.
4.move the retes to set the star altitude. 5.move the rule to a date line which then tells the time.
  
Jamie Causey
3/10/2014 05:14:09 am

I am impressed that you decided to identify all five steps needed to tell time using an astrolabe. After you have spent all that time to accomplish the goal of telling the time, you walk away with a better sense of your place in the universe.

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