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View full screenCelestial globe of brass with silver star positions, showing the traditional Islamic representations of the constellations, by Diya' ad-din Muhammad, Lahore, 1663
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Diya' ad-din Muhammad
Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan, South Asia
1663
Brass with silver star positions
Paris Exhibition of 1889
Earth in Space (29 Jul 2011)
National Museum of Scotland
Savage-Smith, Islamicate Celestial Globes: Their History, Construction and Use, Washington D.C., 1985, pp. 41, 84, 230-1
Anderson, R.G.W., Science in India, London, 1982, p. 34, item 124
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