Cosmolabe Geocoin

To travel the Globe and educate/entertain geocachers about old navigation tools!

The Navigational Coin series revitalizes and pays tribute to the use of those antiquated devices which the GPS receiver made obsolete. Some of these coins provide a little history behind the devices used, and others are actual working replicas which can provide you with your approximate location.

Each coin has a story to tell; each coin represents several centuries worth of navigational development for mankind. Try them out yourself and see what they were like to use. Develop some of the skills which helped our ancestors discover the lands we now live on.

Even though these coins are much smaller than their real representations and do not give as precise of a measurement as the full size instruments, they can still give you a feel of their real use. While using these coins, imagine you are at sea; the ocean swells are a meager 15 feet high, and you are on a small ship the size of a semi-truck. Then try to hold the instrument steady and gain an accurate reading. Not as easy as some people might have thought.

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COSMOLABE GEOCOIN

The Cosmolabe geocoin is a fantasy navigational instrument. Just as an astrolabe is helpful in navigating from point to point on the world, the cosmolabe geocoin is meant to guide the user from world to world through different dimensions. The original was designed and created as a prop for the movie Worldwalker, now in pre-production.

On the obverse side, the user places the reticle of the dial over the symbol for the world they are currently in, then they place the reticle of the beam over the world they wish to travel to. The end points of the beam then point to the rune components needed to create the gate between worlds. You may notice that it is not always possible to travel from any given world to every other one. There are fictional reasons for this but the truth is that such a limitation was necessary for the plot of the movie. On the reverse side, the user can select the rune components and activate the gate.

The text on the cosmolabe is the Voynich script. This is an actual alphabet from a historic text on alchemy (probably) that has never been decoded.