Astrolabe Catalogue

 

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Tympan 4b
This plate is a composite plate for 24° and 30°.

Circles

Type Labelled Style Notes
Equator Plain line.
Tropic of Cancer Plain line.
Tropic of Capricorn Plain line.

Lines

Type Labelled Description
Meridian line
Horizon rectus
Horoscopic (great) houses Numbered (Numbers in Numbers, engraved script) (Abdjad), Dotted line style.

Inscriptions

Transcription Translation Type
صفحه امطارح شعاع بعرض ل Plate for latitude 30° Latitude
صفحه امطارح شعاع بعرض كد Plate for latitude 24° Latitude
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