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Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

European astrolabe by Arsenius, 1566

1566; 1876
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
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
Three electrotypes of the Parthenon, in a frame

Three electrotypes of the Parthenon