Banner image for Al-Mizan exhibition at the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford

An unusually artful 'horse' (wedge) to hold the pieces of an astrolabe together.
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Astrolabe, by Khalil Muhammad ibn Hasan `Ali (manufacture) and Abd al-A'imma (decoration), Persian, c.1700; MHS inv. 50987
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