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Gualterus Arsenius, Astrolabe

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Gualterus Arsenius (d. ca. 1580)
Astrolabe, Louvain, 1572
Florence, Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, inv. 1103

This instrument was built by one of the greatest craftsmen of the 16th century. It contains ten tympanums for different latitudes.