
伊斯蘭星盤如何運作:盤體、星網、緯度盤與照準儀
Muslim Post Editorial Desk@muslimpost
認識平面星盤部件、測量天體高度的方法,以及它如何處理時間和方向。
平面星盤是把天球立體投影壓到平面的模擬儀器,不是齒輪機械。盤體容納緯度盤,星網標示亮星與黃道,背面照準儀測量天體高度。
重點整理
- 盤體是帶刻度邊緣的主體。
- 緯度盤刻有特定地點的地平與高度座標。
- 星網是可轉動的亮星與黃道圖。
- 背面照準儀用來測量太陽或恆星高度。
如何使用本指南
把人物、器物和制度放回具體年代及地區,不要用單一標籤取代證據。遇到爭議說法時,優先查閱博物館、檔案館及學術出版。
資料來源
以下公開機構資料用來核實事實及限定文章範圍,不含商業推廣。
- British Museum: Seeing Stars — Astrolabes and the Islamic World — Explains the principal components and uses of astrolabes in the Islamic world.
- British Museum: Astrolabe Collection Object — Provides object-level evidence for materials, construction and inscriptions.
- British Museum: Astrolabic Quadrant — Shows how related astronomical instruments differed in form and operation.
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Planispheric Astrolabe — Provides object-level details for a dated seventeenth-century Iranian astrolabe.
- History of Science Museum, Oxford: The Planispheric Astrolabe — Defines the mater, plates, rete, rule and alidade and explains their operation.
- Science Museum Group: Islamic Astrolabe — Documents an early Syrian planispheric astrolabe and its surviving parts.





