There is a common misconception in the appearance of the astrolabe. Most people are more familiar with the mariner's astrolabe, a similar device invented to make reading location easier on the rough seas.<ref>Waters, David Watkin, The Art of Navigation in England in Elizabethan and Early Stuart Times, Yale University Press, 1958</ref> | There is a common misconception in the appearance of the astrolabe. Most people are more familiar with the mariner's astrolabe, a similar device invented to make reading location easier on the rough seas.<ref>Waters, David Watkin, The Art of Navigation in England in Elizabethan and Early Stuart Times, Yale University Press, 1958</ref> |