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The astrolabes of the world : based upon the series of instruments in the Lewis Evans Collection of...

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The astrolabes of the world : based upon the series of instruments in the Lewis Evans Collection of...

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The astrolabes of the world : based upon the series of instruments in the Lewis Evans Collection of the old Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, with notes on astrolabes in the collections of the British Museum, Science Museum, Sir J. Findlay, Mr S.V. Hoffman, the Mensing Collection, and in other public and private collections / by Robert T. Gunther.

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The astrolabes of the world : based upon the series of instruments in the Lewis Evans Collection of the old Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, with notes on astrolabes in the collections of the British Museum, Science Museum, Sir J. Findlay, Mr S.V. Hoffman, the Mensing Collection, and in other public and private collections / by Robert T. Gunther.

Publisher

London : Holland Press, 1976.

Date

1976.

Call Numbers

TQ020092

Record Identifier

74VK6AAW3aoy

MMS ID

991020983649702626

Language

English

Latin

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Physical content

xvii, iii, 609 p. : ill., coat of arms, ports. ; 29 cm.

Contents

Includes facsimile reprints, including facsimile reprint of: Description of a planispheric astrolabe, constructed for Sháh Sultán Husain Safawí, King of Persia / by William H. Morley. London : Williams and Norgate, 1856.

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Publisher

London : Holland Press, 1976.

Place of Publication

England

Date Published

1976.

Subjects

Subjects and topics

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Full title

The astrolabes of the world : based upon the series of instruments in the Lewis Evans Collection of the old Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, with notes on astrolabes in the collections of the British Museum, Science Museum, Sir J. Findlay, Mr S.V. Hoffman, the Mensing Collection, and in other public and private collections / by Robert T. Gunther.

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Notes

General note

Astrolabes, to ca 1930 (BNB/PRECIS)

Includes some contributions in Latin.

Originally published in 2 vols.: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1932.

Bibliography: p. 576-598.

Transferred from: NQ522.4/2.

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Call Numbers

TQ020092

Record Identifier

74VK6AAW3aoy

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ISBN

090047064X :

MMS ID

991020983649702626

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