Maryam al-Asṭurlābiyya

Also found as Mariam al-Asturlabiyy · Maryam al-Asturlab

Manufacture of astrolabes at the court of Sayf al-Dawla in Aleppo.

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1001 Inventions

Edited by Salim T. S. al-Hassani

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Printed p. 282 PDF p. 285Reading page

“…incomplete without mentioning a young engineer astronomer , Maryam al-Ijliya al-Astrulabi. Born in Aleppo, Syria, in 944, she was raised in a family of astronomers and instrument makers. She became a skilled astrolabe…”

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