Astrolabe Catalogue

 

Date 1613
Place Europe
Material Brass
Acquisition Presented by Lewis Evans in 1924
Accession 1924-0/2058

Provenance

Evans bought it from Raoul Heilbronner, a dealer and collector of Paris, in 1905. Evans read the symbol or monogram following the date as "AP" and interpreted this as meaning Paris, though the plate is for latitude 45° which is further south.
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