Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition of Early Scientific Instruments in Oxford Opened
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With eight tablets ; one made for the latitude of Morocco. Bodleian Library, MS. Selden Superius, 72. I, S. C. 3205. This beautifully finished instrument came to the University with the Library of John Selden in 1659. 54. Arabian Astrolabe. Writing of c. 1400. Diameter 6| inches. Bodleian Library. Presented by Archbishop Laud, whose arms impaling Canterbury are engraved on the back of the bracket. 55. Astrolabe (or Saphea) and Quadrant. C. 1340, before 1350. Diameter i3 T 4 o inches. Oriel Coll...ege. This instrument, and the 1350 Astrolabe in Merton College, belong 1 See also p. 24. 12 ASTROLABES to a very rare type of which, so far as we know, there are no other English examples out of Oxford and which may have been constructed for some member of the early School of Astronomy at Merton College. The chief peculiarity of the type consists in the absence of changeable tablets and of a raised rim round the base plate to contain tablets and rete. They are astrolabes without a mother, and they are combined with quadrants of large size.
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