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How the Greeks invented a two dimensional astrolabe as a conceptual model of the cosmos, and how it was used.
(Part 2 of 7)
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Transcript link - http://media-podcast.open.ac.uk/feeds/mst121-sundials/transcript/mst121.02_track_3_00518_6457.pdf
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