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Astrolabe
Unsigned
circa 1260; Hispano-Moorish
Brass and copper; 178 mm in diameter

The style of this astrolabe, together with the names of the stars on the rete, suggests a Hispano-Moorish origin although the script is of Lombardic type.

The plates are engraved accordingly to the climates, the seven inhabitable regions of the earth according to Ptolemy.

Museum of the History of Science, Oxford
Inventory number 43504

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