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Georg Peuerbach (attr.), Astrolabe

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Attributed to Georg Peuerbach (d. 1461)
Astrolabe, Vienna, 1457
Nuremberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, inv. WI 129

This astonishingly beautiful instrument is, as far as we know, the oldest astrolabe produced by the Viennese school, of which the famous Regiomontanus was a member.