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Astrolabe
Unsigned
circa 1320; English
Brass; 135 mm in diameter

The rete is the only part of this astrolabe that is known to have survived.

It is nevertheless, as a very early astrolabe part, of no small significance. With its quatrefoil elements, the design is the earliest type in Christian Europe to differ distinctly from the Hispano-Moorish pattern.

Museum of the History of Science, Oxford
Inventory number 45133

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