Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "星盘" in Chinese language version.
Paul Kunitzsch has recently established that the Latin treatise on the astrolabe long ascribed to Ma'sh'allah and translated by John of Seville is in fact by Ibn al-Saffar, a disciple of Maslama al-Majriti.
沒有證據表明球面星盤起源於希臘,但迄今為止已有的證據表明,它可能是一個早期但明顯的在伊斯蘭發展,沒有希臘的先例。