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| Four astrolabes survive signed by Regnerus Arsenius but controversy still surrounds whether this maker existed in his own right or whether he was one and the same as Gualterus Arsenius.
| For instruments by Regnerus Arsenius, see: | |
Astrolabe, Signed by Regnerus Arsenius, Louvain, Dated 1565 (Oxford, MHS) |
| References:
E. Zinner, Deutsche und Niederl?ndische astronomische Instrumente des 11. bis 18. Jahrhunderts (2nd ed., Munich, 1967), pp. 236-8 and p. 679; V. A. Rasquin, Dictionnaire des Constructeurs Belges d'Instruments Scientifiques (les origines ? 1914) (Brussels, 1996), pp. 2-4; K. van Cleempoel, "La Produccion de Instrumentos Cientificos en Lovaina en el Siglo XVI", in K. van Cleempoel et al, Instrumentos Cientificos del Siglo XVI: la Corte Espa?ola y la Escuela de Lovaina (Madrid, 1997), pp. 87-109 [pp. 59-74 in the English summary]; G. M. H.[udson], "Sphere No. 7: A Planispheric Astrolabe by Regnerus Arsenius?", Sphæra: The Newsletter of the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, issue no. 7 (Spring, 1998), p. 7.
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