When the owners of a restaurant in the historic British city of Canterbury dug the foundations for an extension to their period property, they may have hoped to find an old coin or two. Instead, they ...

LONDON — A device that helped medieval scientists tell time will remain in Britain after the British Museum scrambled to come up with the money to buy it. The brass astronomy tool, called an astrolabe ...

The fate of a rare fourteenth-century astrolabe quadrant — a kind of medieval pocket calculator — hangs in the balance while the British Museum in London tries to raise £350,000 (US$700,000) to ...

Recently discovered, the earliest dated English scientific instrument is going under the hammer at Christie's auction house in London on Wednesday. The palm-sized copper-alloy "horary quadrant," which ...

A rare astronomy tool that helped medieval scientists tell time will remain in Britain after the British Museum scrambled to come up with the money to buy it. The brass device, called an astrolabe ...

A medieval astrolabe found buried in the ground has been saved for the nation thanks to a £350,000 purchase by the British Museum. The Canterbury Astrolabe Quadrant is one of only eight instruments of ...

The Warwick Manufacturing Group, an academic department at the University of Warwick, is usually concerned with the future. Its researchers use high-resolution lasers and 3D visualizations to create ...

A 14th century scientific tool, dubbed the "pocket calculator" of its age, sold for a "world record" price today. The astrolabe quadrant which sold today is one of only eight in the world The ...

You just never know what you've got in the shed. This horary quadrant was found in a bag of old pipe fittings in a shed on a farm in Queensland, Australia, forty years ago. Last year the owner of the ...

This astrolabe was made in the Persian city of Isfahan in about 1715. Isfahan is now in Iran. The object includes a body with throne, a handle that holds a ring for suspending the device, and five ...

A rare astronomy tool that helped medieval scientists tell time will remain in Britain after the British Museum scrambled to come up with the money to buy it. The brass device, called an astrolabe ...