Seb Falk
Touching, But What’s the Point?
by Jenny Bulstrode Astrolabes and Stuff is proud to present its first ever guest post! For this we must thank Jenny Bulstrode, a student in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge. Quadrants, sextants, octants, none of them really meant much to me until last year. They’re all descendants of astrolabes. They’re all based around a circle with a scale marked on it. They’re all just fans of metal with bits on. The only way I could see the Navy using one