Astrolabe Catalogue

 

Date ca. 1580
Maker Johann Anton Linden
Place Heilbronn
Material Brass
Acquisition Presented by Lewis Evans in 1924
Accession 1924-0/2034

Provenance

Evans bought it from the astrophysicist W. J. S. Lockyer (son and assistant of Sir Norman Lockyer) in 1920. Lockyer bought it from 'an old curiosity shop' in Göttingen about 1895. The shopkeeper told him that he had acquired it at the request of the astronomer E. F. W. Klinkerfues, of Göttingen University observatory, who apparently used it but did not buy it (Klinkerfues committed suicide in 1884).
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