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Astrolabes

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Images from the collections

Images about Astrolabes

2 images from works
  • An allegorical monument to Sir Isaac Newton and his theories on prisms. Line engraving by L. Desplaces after D. M. Fratta after G.B. Pittoni, D. Valeriani and G. Valeriani.
  • An allegorical monument to Sir Isaac Newton and his theories on prisms. Line engraving by L. Desplaces after D. M. Fratta after G.B. Pittoni, D. Valeriani and G. Valeriani.

Works from the collections

23 works

    • Books

    Early science in Oxford ... / by R.T. Gunther.

    Gunther, R. T. (Robert Theodore), 1869-1940. | Date: 1920-[1968, v. 15, 1967]
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    Traité de l'astrolabe / Préf. de Ernest Esclangon.

    Michel, Henri, 1885-1981. | Date: 1947
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    Kitābān fī al-ʻamal bi-al-asṭurlāb / taʼlīf ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad, al-maʻrūf bi-Abī al-Ḥusayn al-Ṣūfī al-Barrāz al-Rāzī ; taḥqīq ʻAlī ʻAmrāwī.

    Ṣūfī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻUmar, 903-986. | Date: 1995
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    Planispheric astrolabes from the National Museum of American History / Sharon Gibbs with George Saliba.

    National Museum of American History (U.S.) | Date: 1984
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    Two mariner's astrolabes / Derek J. Price.

    Price, Derek J. de Solla (Derek John de Solla), 1922-1983. | Date: [1956]
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Medieval
Astronomical instruments
Astronomy, Arab

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