Astrolabe Catalogue

 

Date 1559
Maker Thomas Gemini
Place London
Material Brass
Inventory no. 42223
Acquisition Transferred from the University Observatory, Oxford, in 1936
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1659. Acad. Oxon. in usum praecipuè Prof. Savilianorum: Ex dono Nic. Greaves. S.T.D. In memoriam { Tho. Bambridge M.D. Jo. Greaves A.M.N. fra:} olim Astronomiae Prof: Savil. 1659 To the University of Oxford for the particular use of the Savilian Professors from the gift of Nicholas Greaves STD in memory of Thomas [correctly John] Bambridge MD and John Greaves AMN his [Nicholas's] brother sometime Savilian Professors of Astronomy Donation
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