The Astrolabe, East and West: 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