Astrolabes
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Exhibition
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Chronology
The exhibition also features a sequence of astrolabes arranged in chronological order through one thousand years.
Table shows thumbnails of astrolabes from our collection in chronological order with links.
A ninth-century astrolabe: the earliest in Oxford
Dagger star pointers from the tenth century
The earliest Persian astrolabe
From eleventh-century Spain
Peace in Toledo
Oxford's earliest Western astrolabe
From thirteenth-century Spain
An early European workshop
From the time of Chaucer
Fourteenth-century quatrefoils?
From the Medici Court
A rare paper astrolabe from the sixteenth century
The finest sixteenth-century workshop
From sixteenth-century Persia
Founding a family tradition in sixteenth-century Lahore
A dying tradition
'Early' Indian Astrolabe
'Early' Turkish Astrolabe
Maintaining the family tradition
One millennium later
Cosmos
Destiny
Faith
Possession
Imagination
Chronology
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