By scrolling down on this page, you see photos of the astrolabe workshop. Participants in the standard astrolabe workshop receive an astrolabe model and then learn some of the applications by doing interactive exercises, supervised by the team.

Wilfred de Graaf teaching the standard astrolabe workshop using the model which he programmed

Participants working on the exercises

Discussing the exercises with our team member Tom.

We were very happy because the astrolabe program was attended by Mr. Cebrail Çukurkaya from Bursa, who makes astrolabes himself. After the workshop he used one of his astrolabes in order to show how the height of a tree can be determined by angular measurements by the astrolabe. One can check the result by measuring the height of the tree by measuring tape

Angular measurement by means of the actual astrolabe

Measuring horizontal distances; then the height can be obtained by angular measurements.

Checking the result by measuring tape

Back to the main screen on our visit to the Mathematics Village.