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Archaeologists have identified evidence of a Jewish-Islamic scientific collaboration having taken place a thousand years ago, thanks to an archaic star chart once thought to be a forgery.
It’s now been described by researchers as the most important artefact in the collection of the Fondazione Museo Miniscalchi-Erizzo in Verona, Italy.
A chance discovery of a photo of the ‘astrolabe’ on the museum’s website by Cambridge University science historian Federica Gigante led to a more detailed analysis of the brass-coloured instrument - [
cosmosmagazine.com]
From the Fondazione Museo Miniscalchi-Erizzo Museum website: [
www.museominiscalchi.it]
"A Medieval Islamic Astrolabe with Hebrew Inscriptions in Verona" (Federica Gigante) - Open access article: [
brill.com]
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