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Astrolabes and quadrants
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Globes and globe gores
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Astrolabe7
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astronomical t&e: astrolabe
astronomical t&e: astrolabe(Moorish)
astronomical t&e: astrolabe(Persian)
Augsburg dial
Butterfield dial
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personal symbol: coat of arms
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timekeeping t&e: astrolabe(Arabic)
timekeeping t&e: dial
timekeeping t&e: dial(compass)
timekeeping t&e: dial(mechanical)
timekeeping t&e: dial, astronomical compendium
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, Augsburg
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, Augsburg ring
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, Butterfield
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, crescent
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, diptych(diptych)
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, equinoctial
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, horizontal
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, inclining
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, magnetic azimuth(azimuth)
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, regiomontanus
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, string gnomon horizontal
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, universal equinoctial
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, universal equinoctial ring
timekeeping t&e: nocturnal
Universal equinoctial armillary dial
Universal equinoctial ring dial
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brass
card
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ivorine or white composite material
ivory
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liquid
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al-A'imma, 'Abd
al-Kirmani, Ja'far ibn 'Umar
al-Yazdi, Muhammad Mahdi
Buschmann, Johannes
Butterfield, Michael
Chesnon, Salomon
Cole, Humfrey
Collet, Timothe
Culpeper, Edmund
Habermel, Erasmus
Hager, Wolfgang
Hauser, Mathias
Isfahani, Muhammad Baqir
Jean Nourry
Khalil, Muhammad
Klieber, Ulrich
Krabbe, Johann
M., P.
Martin, Johann
Masig
Miller, Lienhart
Nourry, Jean
Polanski, Bernard
Poppel, M. F.
Reichenbach, I. V.
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Schissler, Senior, Christoph
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Vinch, Cornelio
Willebrand, Johann Martin
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probably Lyon, France
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The Van de Veldes: Greenwich, Art and the Sea
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Digsby
Drake, Francis
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