ISLAMIC CULTURE
'(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2010-11-24_DJ_03.jpg" target="_blank">Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue from the Mayer Museum in Israel.</a>)  Astronomy was just one area in which the Islamic world made great strides with devices like <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2010-11-24_DJ_03a.jpg" target="_blank">these</a> navigational instruments with the same root as the word "astronomy"'
the astrolabe