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Brian, "Well Astrophysics is very interesting yes. Do the rest of the band take an interest? very much so..."
Brian, "In fact only last night Freddie asked to see my Zodiacal mapping astrolabe..
Brian, "But by the time I'd unpacked it and set it up, the rest of the band and crew had gone to dinner..without me..."
Freddie, "Oh did we dear? I hadn't noticed..."
Brian,"Of course that gave me time to reconfigure the setting for the southern hemisphere as we're in japan..Fred, you have to have a look later tonight.."
Freddie, "Oh bloody marvelous! I mean great!" *thinks* "Oh Christ when will this end?"
Brian,"The astrolabe is based on an Islamic astrolabes design, Judicial astrology (the prediction of future events from the heavens) was more acceptable to Islam than to Christianity since it was not seen to threaten free will or the authority of Allah in the way that astrology was seen to threaten the sovereignty of the Christians' God in the medieval period. In the Qu'ran it is written that God created the stars and that men should be guided by them, indicating the more accepted place of astrology and astronomy within Islam".
Freddie,*Thinks* "If I feign sleep will it stop?"
Brian,"The astrolabe has of course been regarded as only a stepping stone in the development of astrological/astronomical measuring devices..but...
Freddie, *thinks* "Can I make a run for the exit?"
Brian, "It's place in the history of astronomy is assured, of course"
Freddie,*thinks* "Kill me NOW!"
Roger,*thinks* "Do'ya think I look like Rod Stewart today?"