{"id":16866,"date":"2011-11-19T16:18:57","date_gmt":"2011-11-19T20:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shahrefarang.com\/astrolabes-and-celestial-globes\/"},"modified":"2011-11-19T16:18:57","modified_gmt":"2011-11-19T20:18:57","slug":"astrolabes-and-celestial-globes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.shahrefarang.com\/en\/astrolabes-and-celestial-globes\/","title":{"rendered":"Astrolabes and Celestial Globes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Astrolabes and celestial globes were instruments of astrology that were extensively used in the Persian world to create astrological maps. Mainly made of brass they mostly had detailed astrological charts and maps on the inside and on the back.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1288\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1288\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shahrefarang.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Celestial-Globe.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Celestial Globe\" width=\"600\" height=\"636\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1288\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1288\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brass celestial globe by Muhammad ibn Mahmud ibn \u2018Ali al-Tabari al-Asturlabi (Iran, 1285-6 \u2014 the sixth oldest surviving celestial globe)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1291\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1291\" style=\"width: 543px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shahrefarang.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Astrology-Geometrical-Plate-543x700.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Astrology Geometrical Plate\" width=\"543\" height=\"700\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dev.shahrefarang.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Astrology-Geometrical-Plate-543x700.png 543w, https:\/\/dev.shahrefarang.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Astrology-Geometrical-Plate.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 543px) 100vw, 543px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1291\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Astrological geomantic plate (Iran, 17th or 18th century).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1293\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1293\" style=\"width: 465px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shahrefarang.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Astrolobe-Mohammad-Amin.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Astrolobe by Mohammad Amin\" width=\"465\" height=\"700\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1293\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1293\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Astrolabe, by Muhammad Amin, Persian, 1673\/4.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1284\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1284\" style=\"width: 665px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shahrefarang.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Astrolabe-01-700x641.jpg\" alt=\"Iranian Astrolabe\" title=\"Iranian Astrolabe\" width=\"665\" height=\"608\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dev.shahrefarang.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Astrolabe-01-700x641.jpg 700w, https:\/\/dev.shahrefarang.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Astrolabe-01.jpg 1061w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 665px) 100vw, 665px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1284\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An 18th Century Persian astrolabe - maker unknown. The points of the curved spikes on the front rete plate, mark the positions of the brightest stars. The name of each star being labeled at the base of each spike. The back plate, or mater is engraved with projected coordinate lines. From the Whipple Museum of the History of Science in Cambridge. \u2013photo taken by Andrew Dunn<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1298\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1298\" style=\"width: 463px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shahrefarang.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Astrolobe-Khalili-463x700.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Astrolobe-Khalili\" width=\"463\" height=\"700\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dev.shahrefarang.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Astrolobe-Khalili-463x700.jpg 463w, https:\/\/dev.shahrefarang.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Astrolobe-Khalili.jpg 684w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 463px) 100vw, 463px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1298\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Astrolabe, Iran, 1650, Muhammad Mahdi. Courtesy of the Khalili Family Trust.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astrolabes and celestial globes were instruments of astrology that were extensively used in the Persian world to create astrological maps. Mainly made of brass they mostly had detailed astrological charts and maps on the inside and on the back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,435],"tags":[563,564],"class_list":["post-16866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beliefs-2","category-visual-arts-2","tag-astrolabe-2","tag-astrology-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.shahrefarang.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.shahrefarang.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.shahrefarang.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.shahrefarang.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.shahrefarang.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.shahrefarang.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.shahrefarang.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.shahrefarang.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.shahrefarang.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.shahrefarang.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}