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  • A treatise on the astrolabe [microform] addressed to his son Lowys by Geoffrey Chaucer. A. D. 1391. Edited from the earliest mss. by the Rev. Walter W. Skeat.

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    • London, Pub. for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner & co. 1872.
    • 1872
  • The astrolabe: a brief account of its history and construction together with practical instructions showing how it was used and can still be used for solving many astronomical problems, by Harold N. Saunders.

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    • Bude, H. N. Saunders, St. Merryn, Stratton Rd., 1971.
    • 1971
  • Islamic astrolabists and their works.

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    • Genève, A. Kundig, 1956.
    • 1956
    • 1 Item
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    Text *OG 77-3552Offsite
  • Kitāb al-ʻamal bi-al-asṭurlāb li- ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻUmar al-Ṣūfī. Ṣuḥḥiḥa min al-nuskhah al-waḥīdah lil-Maktahab al-Millīyah bi-Bārīs raqam 2393 taḥta murāqabat Muḥammad ʻAbd al-Muʻīd Khān. al-Ṭabʻah ı.

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    • Ḥaydar Ābād al-Dakan, Maṭbaʻat Majlis Dāʼirat al-Maʻārif al-ʻUthmānīyah, 1962.
    • 1962
    • 1 Item
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    Text *OGA 78-813Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Un astrolabe carolingien et l'origine de nos chiffres arabes.

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    • Paris, Peyronnet, 1962.
    • 1962
    • 1 Item
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    Text JSE 77-1226Offsite
  • al-Marāṣid al-falakīyah bi-Baghdād [microform] fī al-ʻaṣr al-ʻAbbāsī.

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    • Baghdād, Dār al-Jumhūrīyah, 1967.
    • 1967
    • 1 Item
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    Text *XMM-203Offsite
  • Das Astrolabium und die Uhr / Johann Hügin. 1. Aufl.

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    • Ulm : Kempter, 1978.
    • 1978
    • 1 Item
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    Text JSD 80-791Offsite
  • L'epistola di al-Kindī sulla sfera armillare / Giuseppe Celentano.

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    • Napoli : Istituto Orientale di Napoli, 1982.
    • 1982
    • 1 Item
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    Text *OG 84-3628Offsite
  • Planispheric astrolabes from the National Museum of American History / Sharon Gibbs with George Saliba.

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    • City of Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1984.
    • 1984
    • 1 Item
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    Text JSF 84-742Offsite
  • Astrometric techniques : proceedings of the 109th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union held in Gainesville, Florida, U.S.A., 9-12 January, 1984 / [sponsored by IAU Commission 24 and co-sponsored by Commission 8 and 40] ; edited by Heinrich K. Eichhron and Robert J. Leacock ; assistant editor, Jeanne M. Kerrick.

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    • Dordrecht [Holland] ; Boston : Reidel ; Hingham, MA, U.S.A. : Sold and distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by Kluwer Academic Publishers, c1986.
    • 1986
    • 1 Item
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    Text JSE 86-1425Offsite
  • Yantrarājavicāraviṃśādhyāyī / Śrīnayanasukhopādhyāyakrtā [i.e. anuvāditā] ; sampādakaḥ Vibhūtibhūṣaṇabhaṭṭācāryaḥ.

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    • Vārāṇasyām : Sampūrṇānanda-Saṃskrta-Viśvavidyālayāḥ, 1979.
    • 1979
    • 1 Item
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    Text *OKQ 87-3714Offsite
  • Jordanus de Nemore and the mathematics of astrolabes = De plana spera : an edition with introduction, translation, and commentary / by Ron B. Thomson.

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    • Toronto : Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1978.
    • 1978
    • 1 Item
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    Text JBY Q-332Offsite
  • Catalogue de l'horlogerie et des instruments de précision : du début du XVIe au milieu du XVIIe siècle / par Adolphe Chapiro, Chantal Meslin-Perrier, Anthony Turner ; avec la participation de Hervé Oursel.

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    • Paris : Editions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, 1989.
    • 1989
    • 1 Item
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    Text JSF 91-98Offsite
  • Di due astrolabi in caratteri cufici occidentali [microform] : trovati in Valdagno (Veneto) / illustrazione di Almerico da Schio.

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    • Venezia : F. Ongania, 1880.
    • 1880
  • Maʻrifat al-usṭūrlāb, mʻarūf bih, Shish faṣl ; bih ẓamīmah-i ʻAmal va al-alqāb / az Muḥammad ibn Ayyūb Ṭabarī ; taṣḥīḥ-i Muḥammad Amīn Riyāḥī.

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    • Tihrān : Shirkat-i Intishārāt-i ʻIlmī va Farhangī, 1371 [1992]
    • 1992
    • 1 Item
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    Text *OMP 94-8226Offsite
  • Pèlerin de Prusse on the astrolabe / text and translation of his Practique de astralabe / [edited] by Edgar Laird, Robert Fischer.

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    • Binghamton, NY : Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1995.
    • 1995
    • 1 Item
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  • Risālat al-ṣafīḥa al ŷāmiʻa li-ŷamīʻ al-ʻurūḍ : tratado sobre la lámina general para todas las latitudes / Abū ʻAlī al- Ḥusayn Ibn Bāṣo ; edición crítica, traducción y estudio por Emilia Calvo Labarta.

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    • Madrid : Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Instituto de Cooperación con el Mundo Árabe, 1993.
    • 1993
    • 1 Item
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    Text *OG 95-6495Offsite
  • Opera / Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt.

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    • Pisa : Scuola normale superiore, 1995.
    • 1995
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFE 96-9015Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • El astrolabio. [Notas y recuerdos]

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    • Buenos Aires [Instituto Amigos del Libro Argentino] 1955.
    • 1955
    • 1 Item
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    Text KBK (Bargas Nigoul, A. Astrolabio) (1955)Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Ezechiels syner og Chaldaeernes astrolab / af C. A. Holmboe.

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    • Christiania : P. T. Malling, 1866.
    • 1866
    • 1 Item
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    Text *YLRD (Holmboe, C. A. Ezechiels Syner og Chaldaeernes Astrolab)Offsite
  • Early science in Oxford ... by R. T. Gunther.

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    • Oxford, 1920-[68. v. 15, 1967]
    • 1920-1968
    • 16 Items
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    Text OAC (Gunther, R. W. T. Early science in Oxford) v. 13 (1938)Offsite
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    Text OAC (Gunther, R. W. T. Early science in Oxford) v. 14 (1945)Offsite
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    Text OAC (Gunther, R. W. T. Early science in Oxford) v. 15 (1967)Offsite
  • A handbook of the prismatic astrolabe : being a concise and practical guide to the employment of the instrument in the field, designed for the use of geographical and hydrographical surveyors ... / by John Ball and H. Knox-Shaw.

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    • Cairo : Government Press, 1919.
    • 1919
    • 1 Item
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    Text ONL (Ball, J. Handbook of the prismatic astrolabe)Offsite
  • The astrolabes of the world : based upon the series of instruments in the Lewis Evans Collection in 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, M. A., Hon. LL.D., curator of the Lewis Evans Collection in the Old Ashmolean Museum at Oxford.

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    • Oxford : Printed at the University Press, 1932.
    • 1932
    • 2 Items
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    Text ONK+ (Gunther, R. W. T. Astrolabes of the world) v. 1Offsite
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    Text ONK+ (Gunther, R. W. T. Astrolabes of the world) v. 2Offsite
  • Chaucer's treatise on the astrolabe, ms. 4862-4869 of the Royal library in Brussels.

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    • Antwerpen, De Sikkel; [etc.,etc.] 1940.
    • 1940
    • 1 Item
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    Text ONK (Pintelon, P. Chaucer's Treatise on the astrolabe) 1940Offsite
  • Traité de l'astrolabe. Préf. de Ernest Esclangon.

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    • Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1947.
    • 1947
    • 1 Item
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    Text ONL (Michel, H. Traite de l'astrolabe)Offsite
  • Notes on the determination of the value to be accepted from observations for latitude and longitude with the prismatic astrolabe, prepared by Mr. T.J. Richmond ... under the direction of Rear Admiral H.P. Douglas ...

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    • London, Published for the Hydrographic Department, Admiralty, by H.M. Stationery Off., 1928.
    • 1928
    • 1 Item
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    Text OXL+ (Great Britain. Hydrographic Office. Notes on the determination of the value to be accepted from observations for latitude and longitude)Offsite
  • Tractat de l'assafea d'Azarquiel.

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    • Barcelona [Arts Gràfiques, Successors d'Henrich] 1933.
    • 1933
    • 1 Item
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    Text *PVE (Zarkali, A. I. I. ibn Y. Tractat de l'assafea d'Azarquiel)Schwarzman Building - Dorot Jewish Division Room 111

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  • Chaucer on the astrolabe, with the original illustrations.

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    • Oxford, The author, 1931.
    • 1931
    • 1 Item
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    Text OAI p.v. 169 no. 1-7Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Das kugelförmige Astrolab, nach den Mitteilungen von Alfons X. von Kastilien und den vorhandenen arabischen Quellen, von Dr. Hugo Seemann, unter Mitwirkung von Dr. Th. Mittelberger.

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    • Erlangen, M. Mencke, 1925.
    • 1925
    • 1 Item
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    Text OMX p.v. 38, no. 1 no. 1-10Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Zur Geschichte des Astrolabs / vorgelegt von Josef Frank.

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    • Erlangen : Universitäts-Buchdruckerei von Junge & Sohn, 1920.
    • 1920
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    Text OMX p.v. 32, no. 1 no. 1-10Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Ein Astrolab aus dem indischen Mogulreiche / von Josef Frank und Max Meyerhof.

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    • Heidelberg : Carl Winter's Universitätsbuchhandlung, 1925.
    • 1925
    • 1 Item
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    Text OMX p.v. 40, no. 1 no. 1-9Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • On Champlain's astrolabe, lost on the 7th June, 1613, and found in August, 1867, considered in solution of an obscurity in his journal of his first voyage up the Ottawa; and the great antiquity of astrolabes, and origin of their graduation. By A.J. Russell.

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    • Montreal, Printed by the Burland-Desbarats Lith. Co., 1879.
    • 1879
    • 1 Item
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    Text ONC p.v. 2, no. 1 no. 1-24Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Orontii Finei Delphinatis, Regii Mathematicarum Professoris Quadrans astrolabicus, omnibus Europae regionibus inseruie[n]s / ex recenti & eme[n]data ipsius authoris recognitione in ampliore[m], ac longè fideliorum redactus descriptionem.

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    • Parisiis : Apud Simonem Colinaeum, 1534.
    • 1534
  • Paraphrase De L'Astrolabe, contenant Les Principes de Geometrie. La Sphere. L'Astrolabe, ou, declaracion des choses celestes. Le Miroir du Monde, ou, exposicion des parties de la Terre. Reuue & corrigee par Iaques Bassentin ... auec vne Amplificacion de l'Vsage de l'Astrolabe par luimesme aioutee.

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    • A Lyon, Par I. De Tovrnes, 1555.
    • 1555
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    Text *KB 1555 (Focard, J. Paraphrase De L'Astrolabe) Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • Elvcidatio fabricae vsvsq[ue] astrolabii, a Ioanne Stoflerino ... atq[ue] totius Spherice doctissimo, nuper ingeniose cõcinnata atq[ue] in lucem edita ...

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    • Oppenheym, Jmpressum [[p] Jacobũ Köbel], 1513.
    • 1513
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    Text *KB 1513 (Stoffler, J. Elvcidatio Fabricae Vsvsq[ue] Astrolabii)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • Christophori Clavii ... Astrolabivm ...

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    • Romæ, Jmpensis Bartholomæi Grassi, Ex Typographia Gabiana, 1593.
    • 1593
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    Text *KB 1593 (Clavius, C. Christophori Clavii ... Astrolabivm)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • Traite De La Composition Et Fabrique de l'Astrolabe, & de son vsage: auec les preceptes des mesures Geometriques: Le tout traduit du Latin de Iean Stofler ... Auecques annotations sur l'vsage de l'Astrolabe, & mesures Geometriques: faites par Iean Pierre de Mesmes.

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    • A Paris, Chez G. Cauellat [1560]
    • 1560
  • Elvcidatio Fabricae Vsvsqve Astrolabii, Ioanne Stoflerino Ivstingẽsi uiro Germano, atq[ue] totius sphericæ doctissimo autore: iam denuo ab eodum uix æstimãdis sudoribus recognita diligẽ[n]ter locupletataq[ue]: & tandem nõ minore diligentia Cöbelianis typis excusa ...

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    • Oppenheim [In Aedibvs Iacobi Cobelii] 1524.
    • 1524
    • 1 Item
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    Text *KB+ 1524 (Stoeffler, J. Elvcidatio Fabricae Vsvsqve Astrolabii)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • The mathematical iewel, shewing the making, and most excellent vse of a singuler instrument so called: in that it performeth with wonderfull dexteritie, whatsoeuer is to be done, either by quadrant, ship, circle, cylinder, ring, dyall, horoscope, astrolabe, sphere, globe, or any such like heretofore deuised: yea or by most tables commonly extant: and that generally to all places from pole to pole. The vse of which iewel, is so aboundant and ample, that it leadeth any man practising thereon, the direct pathway (from the first steppe to the last) through the whole artes of astronomy, cosmography, geography, topography, nauigation, longitudes of regions, dyalling, sphericall triangles, setting figures, and briefely of whatsoeuer concerneth the globe or sphere: with great and incredible speede, plainenesse, facilitie, and pleasure: the most part newly founde out by the author, compiled and published for the furtherance, as well of gentlemen and others desirous of speculatiue knowledge, and priuate practise: as also for the furnishing of such worthy mindes, nauigators, and traueylers, that pretend long voyages or new discoueries: by John Blagraue of Reading gentleman and well willer to the mathematickes, who hath cut all the prints or pictures of the whole worke with his owne hands.

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    • Imprinted at London by Walter Venge, dwelling in Fleetelane ouer against the Maiden head [1585]
    • 1585
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    Text *KC+ 1585 (Blagrave, J. Mathematical iewel)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • Die Astrolabiensammlungen des Deutschen Museums und des Bayerischen Nationalmuseums / Burkhard Stautz.

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    • München : Oldenbourg, 1999.
    • 1999
    • 1 Item
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    Text JSE 01-1024Offsite
  • Une version Byzantine du traité sur l'astrolabe du Pseudo-Messahalla / Anne Tihon, Régine Leurquin et Claudy Scheuren.

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    • Louvain-la-Neuve [Belgium] : Bruylant-Academia, c2001.
    • 2001
    • 1 Item
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    Text *OGA+ 01-9161Offsite
  • The ciphers of the monks : a forgotten number-notation of the Middle Ages / by David A. King.

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    • Stuttgart : F. Steiner, 2001.
    • 2001
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFE 02-8441Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • A treatise on the astrolabe / edited by Sigmund Eisner.

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    • Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c2002.
    • 2002
    • 1 Item
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    Text *R-RMRR PR1851 .R84 1979 v. 6 pt. 1Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 - Reference

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  • Mathematical instrumentation in fourteenth-century Egypt and Syria : the illustrated treatise of Najm al-Dīn al-Mīṣrī / by François Charette.

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    • Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2003.
    • 2003
    • 1 Item
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    Text *OG 03-4367Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Renaissance astrolabes and their makers / Gerard L'E. Turner.

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    • Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate/Variorum, c2003.
    • 2003
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFE 03-12036Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Keli neḥoshet : ṿe-hu beʼur melekhet keli ha-atsṭralob ... / Avraham ben ʻEzra.

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    • Königsberg : Gedruckt in der Hartungschen Hofbuchdruckerei, 605 [1845]
    • 1845
    • 1 Item

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  • On the astrolabe / Al-Farghānī ; Arabic text edited with translation and commentary by Richard Lorch.

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    • Stuttgart : Steiner, 2005.
    • 2005
    • 1 Item
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    Text *OG 05-4908Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Astrolabes at Greenwich : a catalogue of the astrolabes in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich / [edited by] Koenraad van Cleempoel ; with contributions from Silke Ackermann ... [et al.].

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    • Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press ; London : National Maritime Museum, 2005.
    • 2005
    • 1 Item
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    Text JSG 06-75Offsite
  • Astrolabes and angels, epigrams and enigmas : from Regiomontanus' acrostic for Cardinal Bessarion to Piero della Francesca's Flagellation of Christ / an essay by David A. King ; inspired by two remarkable discoveries by Berthold Holzschuh.

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    • Stuttgart : Franz Steiner Verlag, 2007.
    • 2007
    • 2 Items
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    Text *WGC-5877 [Computer disc]Offsite
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    Text ReCAP 07-5973 [Text]Offsite
  • The archaic and the exotic : studies in the history of Indian astronomical instruments / Sreeramula Rajeswara Sarma.

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    • New Delhi : Manohar, 2008.
    • 2008
    • 1 Item
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    Text JSD 09-88Offsite

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