Astrolabe

Ancient · Household · 200 BCE

TL;DR

Astrolabe - requires enrichment with adjacent possible narrative

Astrolabe - requires enrichment

What Had To Exist First

Preceding Inventions

Dioptra

What This Enabled

Inventions that became possible because of Astrolabe:

Fully mechanical clock Quadrant Nonius

Biological Patterns

Mechanisms that explain how this invention emerged and spread:

Path Dependence

Related Inventions

Dioptra Nonius Fully mechanical clock Quadrant

Tags

Astronomy

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