Observed arrival · 2026-08-28
HETEGA: The Golden Age’s Technological Heritage
A digital catalog of reconstructed scientific instruments from the Islamic world between the 9th and 16th centuries.
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The homepage organizes the material as a collection inventory rather than a general history essay, with category links covering astronomy, navigation, clocks, geometry, optics, physics, medicine, and architecture. Featured entries supply concrete object-level detail: the Oxford astrolabe is dated 1480–81, while the Dresden brass celestial globe is described as carrying 48 constellations and 1,025 stars. The page identifies the objects as museum-standard reconstructions and attributes the catalog material to Fuat Sezgin’s research and related publications.
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