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Astrolabe
Unsigned
circa 1400; French
Brass; 152 mm in diameter

This astrolabe, with its elegantly designed rete and precise engraving has been lettered throughout in the Lombardic style. This helps to locate its origins, but the accompanying plates cover a wide range of latitudes from 41 to 53 degrees. One interesting feature of the rete is the way the central meridian bar is drawn aside into a semicircle to make way for the projected position of the star Vega.

The astrolabe is very similar to another in the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford: Epact 12610.

Museum of the History of Science, Oxford
Inventory number 41468

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