Celestial instruments Surviving artifact

Chaucerian Astrolabe — Oxford

Circa 1370

Speculative use · Tartarian imagining

Imagine an Old World traveler carrying a brass sky map marked with animal-shaped star pointers.

An imagined use within Tartarian lore; its historic use is not established by this interpretation.

Where it survives

History of Science Museum

Oxford, United Kingdom

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Collection reference: 49359

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