Astrolabe Catalogue

 

Date 1551
Maker Anthoine Mestrel
Place Paris
Material Brass
Acquisition Presented by J. A. Billmeir in 1957
Accession 1957-84/22

Provenance

Billmeir bought it from Nicolas Landau, a collector and dealer of Paris, through the London dealer Ernst Weil, in 1951. The Science Museum, London, had had it brought to England in a diplomatic bag but then decided not to buy it. It was previously in the collection of Henri Michel, of Brussels.
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