When ambient temperature changes an astrolabe's components, which inaccuracy increases the most significantly?

💡 Explanation

Misalignment of altitude scales increases because differential thermal expansion changes the components' dimensions; therefore readings become skewed, rather than affecting concentricity directly due to averaging during element placement or etching precision.

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