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Astrolabe by Ferdinand Arsenius

1607-1618

Islamic astrolabe, 1601-1699

1600-1699

European astrolabe, 1495-1505

1495-1505

Astrolabe, c.1650

1645-1655

"Oxford" astrolabe

1925-1930

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Islamic astrolabe, 1645-1655

1645-1655

Hindu astrolabe

1870

European astrolabe, 1295-1305

1295-1305

Planispheric astrolabe, 1572

1572

Islamic astrolabe, 1605-1606

1605-1606

European astrolabe, 1320-1330

1320-1330

Islamic astrolabe, 1145-1155

1145-1155

Islamic astrolabe, 1849

1849

European astrolabe, 1631

1631

Fake Islamic astrolabe, 1890-1930

1890-1930

Fake Islamic astrolabe, 1890-1930

1890-1930

The Use of the Astrolabe

1959

The Use of the Astrolabe

1959

Islamic Astrolabe

901-1100 CE

Fake astrolabe

1580-1600

European astrolabe, 1570

1565-1575

European astrolabe,1650

1650

European astrolabe, 1425-1435

1425-1435

European astrolabe, 1548

1548

European astrolabe by Arsenius, 1566

1566; 1876

Islamic Astrolabe

1666-1667

astrolabe

Fake Islamic astrolabe, 1890-1930

1890-1930

Model of Yantra and astrolabe at Jaipur Observatory, 1884-1886

1884-1886

Islamic astrolabe, 1701-1800

1701-1800

St Jerome in his study

1964

star and sundial, Dutch, 1681

1681

Electrotype replica made by C.A. Melling and Company of a planispheric astrolabe by Mohammad ibn Bekr ibn Mohammad Al Rashidi Al-Abari [ The Needle Maker of Isfahan], dated 1221 AD. From the Museum for the History of Science, Oxford [see IC 5].

Replica of Islamic astrolabe, 1221

1221

Astrolabe

Astrolabe

1688

National Maritime Museum Make-it-yourself Astrolabe [info booklet (8p.) & kit] / National Maritime Museum, 1979. [Includes plastic insert complementing the other constituent parts which can be cut out from the booklet to assemble]

Make-it-yourself Astrolabe, 1979

1979

Electrotype copy of a planispheric astrolabe with 9 plates by Ibrahim ibn Said of Valencia, dated 1085 AD and from the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Kassel [see IC 121]. 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.

Replica of Islamic astrolabe, 1085

1085

Planispheric astrolabe by Gualterus (Walter) Arsenius, Louvain, c. 1570 in brass gilt with four plates for the latitudes of 25 with 28, 31 with 34, 37 with 38, and 39 with 40 degrees, IC 228 [International Checklist]. The reverse side is supplied with a Gemma Frisius universal projection scale and a compass square in the base of the womb.

Planispheric astrolabe by Gualterus (Walter) Arsenius

1565-1575

Brass Hindu planispheric astrolabe with inlaid silver sanskrit script, commissioned by Manna Lala in Jaipur, 1836.

Hindu astrolabe commissioned at Jaipur

1836

Hindu astrolabe, silver, with linen pouch and hardwood case, unsigned, 19th century, Indian

Hindu astrolabe, 1800-1899

1800-1899

Indian planispheric astrolabe engraved in Nagari script, c. 1800.

Hindu astrolabe

1795-1805