> The history of instrument-making and how it is intertwined with philosophical and religious views on the skies and the topology of the universe is quite fasci

> The history of instrument-making and how it is intertwined with philosophical and religious views on the skies and the topology of the universe is quite fascinating (e.g. the motivations for observing the sky ... While this is in part to be attributed to superstition and religion, this in turn was of material importance to navigation, aggriculture, and perhaps philosophy. Indeed, it is curious how those interrelated. For one, nomads would need to know when it was time to move on, and where to.