The University of Sharjah hosted an astrolabe workshop in which western scientists showed participants how an astronomical instrument made by a medieval Muslim scholar nearly 1,000 years ago measured the altitude of the sun throughout the twelve zodiacal signs and told local time through the position of the sun in the ecliptic on a given day.
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