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 Museu

Publication Data

• 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 Museu
• Author R. T. Gunther
• Publisher Holland Press
• Publication date 1976
• Publication location London
• Language English

Descriptive Notes

Includes some contributions in Latin.
Originally published: in 2 vols. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1932.
Bibliography: p. 576-598. _ Includes index.

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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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 Museu by R. T. Gunther. ISBN 090047064X. Published by Holland Press in 1976. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.