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View full screenBrass astrolabe with two graduated tablets, rete showing 21 stars and alidade with peep sights, unsigned, probably Flemish, believed to be by Michael Piquer, mid 16th century
T.1928.21
Piquer, Michael, 1542 - 1555 (fl.)
Flanders, EUROPE
Mid 16th century
Brass
Earth in Space (29 Jul 2011)
National Museum of Scotland
Gunther, R.T., Astrolabes of the World, Oxford, 1932, pp 395-6
Gibbs, Sharon L. et al., A Computerised Checklist of Astrolabes, New Haven, Connecticut, 1973, no. 1184
For the use of the astrolabe, see Turner, A.J., The Time Museum: Time Measuring Instruments Part 1 Astrolabes, Rockford, Illinois, 1985, pp 1-9, 23-6
North, J.D., 'The Astrolabe' in Scientific American 230 (1974) pp 96-106
National Maritime Museum, The Planispheric Astrolabe, London, 1976
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