| Date | ca. 1320 |
| Place | England (?) |
| Inventory no. | 45133 |
| Acquisition | Purchased from R. P.
Howgrave-Graham in 1956 |
The supports to the portion of the equator in the lower
part of the rete have
an architectural form, shaped like the pillars of a building.
This underlines the influence of Gothic architecture evident
in the rete designs of European astrolabes of the 14th and
15th centuries, which are characterized by trefoil and
quatrefoil motifs resembling contemporary windows and other
decorative stonework (compare inventory nos. 47615 and
50769).
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The rete contains 38 stars. The rete contains zoomorphs:
tropic of capricorn ends in a dragon's head and an engraved
head of a goat forms one of the sets of star pointers. The
zodiac on the rete is labelled: AREIS , TAVR
9 ,
GEM’ , CANC’ , LEO , VIRGO , LIBRA , SCORPIO , SAGITT' ,
CAPRICORN
9 , AQURIVS , PISCES.
The rete contains 1 scale of the following type:
Zodiacal signs.
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