Astrolabe Catalogue

 

Small image of astrolabe rete separated from astrolabe. Click to enlarge.
Date ca. 1690
Maker John Prujean
Place Oxford
Material Wood
Inventory no. 48821
Acquisition Presented by Lewis Evans in 1924
The rete is of the other (printed) type. Printed paper on pasteboard, with mostly triangular star pointers with stars printed near tips using three symbols according to magnitude (of which there is a key on a rectangular tab).

Stars

There are 16 stars on the rete marked with dagger pointers. Unless otherwise indicated the star name, mediation and declination are as marked/measured on the rete.
Click on the star name or modern star name to search for other astrolabes with the same star.
Star name
(on instrument)
Modern star
(if known)
Mediation Declination Pointer
xxx pointer damaged pointer damaged dagger
xxx pointer damaged pointer damaged dagger
xxx pointer damaged pointer damaged dagger
xxx pointer damaged pointer damaged dagger
xxx pointer damaged pointer damaged dagger
xxx pointer damaged pointer damaged dagger
xxx pointer damaged pointer damaged dagger
xxx pointer damaged pointer damaged dagger
xxx pointer damaged pointer damaged dagger
xxx pointer damaged pointer damaged dagger
xxx pointer damaged pointer damaged dagger
xxx pointer damaged pointer damaged dagger
xxx pointer damaged pointer damaged dagger
xxx pointer damaged pointer damaged dagger
xxx pointer damaged pointer damaged dagger
xxx pointer damaged pointer damaged dagger
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