Replica of Islamic Astrolabe
- Made:
- 1066; 1876
- maker:
- Elkington and Company and
- Ibrahim ibn Said Al-Wazzan
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Electrotype copy of an Islamic planispheric astrolabe by Ibrahim ibn said of Toledo at the Museo Arqueologico Nacional in Madrid, and dated 1066 AD [see IC 117]. Made by Elkington and Company after the original was displayed at the Special Loan Collection of Scientific Apparatus in the South Kensington Museum in 1876.
