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An early 20th-Century paper and aluminium astrolabe,
printed on the paper throne THE OXFORD ASTROLABE Designed after the Persian, Moorish and European Instruments in the Old Ashmolean Museum, Oxford HIPPARCHUS inv. B.C. 150 JENKIN del et fec. A.D. 1925, with hour scale around the edge and a turning yellow perspex star-finder and alidade, with paper sights -- 9in. (22.8cm.) wide; together with the accompanying pamphlet THE ASTROLABE Its Construction and Use by C.F. Jenkin, Professor of Engineering Science, Oxford, OUP, 1925 (2)
printed on the paper throne THE OXFORD ASTROLABE Designed after the Persian, Moorish and European Instruments in the Old Ashmolean Museum, Oxford HIPPARCHUS inv. B.C. 150 JENKIN del et fec. A.D. 1925, with hour scale around the edge and a turning yellow perspex star-finder and alidade, with paper sights -- 9in. (22.8cm.) wide; together with the accompanying pamphlet THE ASTROLABE Its Construction and Use by C.F. Jenkin, Professor of Engineering Science, Oxford, OUP, 1925 (2)
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