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No. 255 · Museum artifacts
Astrolabe of Muhammad ibn Hamid al-Isfahani
Safavid Persia
An engraved brass instrument for mapping the stars.
- Maker
- Safavid Persia
- Date
- c. 17th century
- Era
- Early modern
- Style
- Islamic world
- Form
- Science & technology
- Origin
- Iran
- Where it is
- Museum of the History of Science, Oxford
