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Astrolabe, 1062
Brescia, Civici Musei d'Arte e Storia, inv. IC n. 2

This is the only known astrolabe to have inscriptions in Greek. It was brought to Italy from Constantinople by Cardinal Bessarion, who showed it to the young mathematician Regiomontanus in Vienna in 1460-61.