Podcast transcripts Welcome to Math! Science! History! I’m Gabrielle Birchak, your host. For Women’s History Month, I wanted to feature one brilliant thing, one clean win, and one woman whose work still quietly runs the world, even if most of us do not realize it. Today’s “one brilliant thing” was a sorting system. A classification scheme. A way to take the universe,
The apocalyptic month was June. The year was 451 CE. A red point of light appeared in the sky as a fiery stream of light followed its path.
If you are interested in learning more about the astrolabe, as well as how to make one, here are several links that will point you in the right direction. (pun intended)