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A Tenth Mariner's Astrolabe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 January 2010

Extract

In his paper ‘Two Mariner's Astrolabes’ (Journal, 9, 338) Dr. D. J. Price stated that hitherto only seven mariner's astrolabes had been found and the details published. He then described two more mariner's astrolabes, the Dundee astrolabe of 1555, discovered some months previously, and the Kronborg astrolabe of 1600, discovered in 1928.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 1957

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1Fontoura da Costa, A. (1933). A Marinharia dos Descobrimentos, Lisbon. The note on the astrolabe is on p. v. of the ‘Erratos e Comentarios’ at the end of the book, the sketch of the astrolabe is on the verso (p. vi). The date of recovery from the wreck of Madre de Deos is incorrectly given as 1932.Google Scholar
2Boxer, C. R. (1929). ‘The Affair of the Madre de Deos; A Chapter in the History of the Portuguese in Japan’, Transactions and Proceedings of the Japanese Society London, Vol. 26.Google Scholar
3Sudzuki, O., ‘Data on the Astrolabe of the Madre de Deos’, Communication of 11 October 1956, Tenri University Library, Japan.Google Scholar