Tag Archives: astrolabes

THE ANGLE OF THE SOUTH

If you happen to be wandering down a public footpath that leads nowhere and that teeters on the edge of a cliff somewhere within sight of France and Dungeness Power Station and just out of sight of an official nudist beach, you might spy this … There’s even an incisive and concise explanation … This […]

THE BEST LAID PLANS

astrolabe noun chiefly historical an instrument formerly used to make astronomical measurements, typically of the altitudes of celestial bodies, and in navigation for calculating latitude, before the development of the sextant. In its basic form (known from classical times), it consists of a disk with the edge marked in degrees and a pivoted pointer. ORIGIN […]

THE LUCK OF THE IRISH

Actually not the Irish but the Australians. Last week Lo, she is a terrible Goddess had a check up with the eye surgeon who replaced the lenses in her eyes about eighteen months ago. Everything is fine, so that’s good. Anywho we got chatting to her eye surgeon, Mr Shultz, who is/was Australian, and somehow […]