The Astronomical Observatories of Jai Singh c24.s1.t2: (2) Astrolabes
The Astronomical Observatories of Jai Singh c24.s1.t2
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(2) Astrolabes
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J. J. MIDDLETON.—Description of a Persian Astrolabe, submitted to the Asiatic Society by Major Pottinger. (*Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal*, 1841, x, 761 f.)
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W. H. MORLEY.—*Description of a planispheric astrolabe constructed for Shah Sultán Hussain Safawí, King of Persia, and now preserved in the British Museum*. London.
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H. SAUVAIRE AND J. DE REY PAILHADE.—Sur une Mère d’Astrolabe arabe du xiiiᵉ siècle, etc. (*Journal Asiatique*, Neuvième série, Tome i, 1893, pp. 5-76 and pp. 185-231.)
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M. L. HUGGINS.—The Astrolabe—A summary. (*Astronomy and Astrophysics*, vol. xiii, 1894, pp. 793-802.) (See also article ‘Astrolabe’ in the *Encyclopædia Britannica*).
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CARRA DE VAUX.—L’ Astrolabe linéaire ou Baton d’et-Tousi. (*Journal asiatique*, Neuvième série, Tome V, Mai-Juin, 1895, pp. 464-516.)
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NAU F.—Le traité sur l’Astrolabe plan de Sévère Sabokt. *Jour. asiat.* 1899, 56-101, 238-303.
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H. S. COWPER.—A Fifteenth Century Planispheric Astrolabe, made at Granada. (*Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland*, 1904, pp. 53-66 and 542-3.)
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S. A. IONIDES.—Description of an astrolabe. (*The Geographical Journal*, 1904, xxiv, pp. 411-417.)
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C. A. NALLINO.—*Asturlāb* (*Encyclopaedia of Islam*, 1913, f.).
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See also DELAMBRE, SÉDILLOT, etc., below; also FOCARD, *Paraphrase de l'Astrolabe*, 1555; CLAVIUS, *Gnomonices*, 1581, and *Astrolabium*, 1593; and list in MORLEY'S *Plan. Astr.*, p. 46. For Arabic-Persian works on the astrolabe (which are exceedingly numerous), see SUTER'S *Math. u. Astr. der Araber*. Persian lithographed text-books are fairly common. See also PRATT, J. A. S. B., 1842, xi, 720-721; MORGAN, *Archæologia*, 1851, xxx, 259-264; LECKY, *Monthly Notices, R. A. S.*, xxxiv, 120; also CHAUCER'S *Treatise on the Astrolabe* (A.D. 1691) and SKEAT'S and BRAE'S notes thereon; L. EVANS, *Arch. Jour.* 1911, 221 f.