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Mariam al Astrulabi: A Muslim woman behind the 10th-century astrolabes

Mariam took the science of astrolabes to the next level and over a thousand years later, she becomes a central character in the science-fiction novel Binti. Mariam took the science of astrolabes to the next level and over a thousand years later, she becomes a central character in the science-fiction novel Binti. Between the 8th and 15th centuries, Muslim scholars …

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