Astrolabe Catalogue

 

Tympan 1a
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Circles

Type Labelled Style Notes
Equator Equinoctialis (Latin in Italic script) Arrowed line. Labelled twice
Tropic of Capricorn Tropicus Capricorni (Latin in Italic script) None line.

Lines

Type Labelled Description
Meridian line Linea meridiana (Latin in Italic script)
Horizon rectus HORISON RECTVS (Latin in Roman Capital script)

Inscriptions

Transcription Translation Type
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

Scales


Type Range & Units Numbered Geometry Location
Table of Horizons 0 - 90 Degrees Every 10 degrees n/a n/a
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