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What do all those columns of letters and numbers mean? This post explains how to make sense of all the information.

A few years ago I enjoyed a blog post in which National Maritime Museum curator Rebekah Higgitt wrote about the “navigation” theme of the...

OK, so I missed Andy Murray’s Wimbledon semi-final.  And I missed seeing England hammer the Aussies in Cardiff.  But I didn’t care. ...

I’ve written a blog post entitled “How to cast a medieval horoscope” before.  But I didn’t tell the whole story. Regular readers of this...

I recently returned from the International Congress on Medieval Studies.  It’s held every year at the University of Western Michigan in...

What is the difference between precision and accuracy? In modern English they are used almost interchangeably.  But there is a...

It’s rare that shopping channels grapple with complex problems in astronomy – but miracles do happen.  Here’s the contributors to QVC...

Apologies for the long hiatus!  I’ve been busy with lots of things, among them the birth of my first child.  I’ll post his horoscope here...

I recently visited, and very much enjoyed, the exhibition at the National Maritime Museum about the quest for longitude.  It’s on until...

I wrote this post for the blog of the 24th International Congress of History of Science, Technology and Medicine (iCHSTM), which takes...

This is a question I’ve been asked several times, and it’s a reasonable one given that this blog is called “Astrolabes and Stuff”, yet...