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Astrolabe
Signed by Philippe Danfrie
circa 1600; French
Gilt brass; 270 mm in diameter

This instrument shows obvious influence from the Arsenius school in Louvain as the tulip-shaped rete, the throne consisting of two satyrs supporting an armillary sphere and a quadratum nauticum on the mater.

The signature gives neither date nor place, but Philippe Danfrie is known to have worked most of his life in Paris and the solar cycle on the back of the astrolabe starts with the year 1600 which suggests that it was made shortly before or in this year.

British Museum, London
Registration no. MLA 1897,11-18.1

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