Carnegie Observatories Persian Astrolabe / Back of Astrolabe

Robert Storts, photographer, October, 1999

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Persian Astrolabe

Gift of Mrs. G.E. Hale

Formerly owned by Sir William Huggins (1824-1910) and Lady Huggins (1848-1915), née Margaret Lindsay Murray.

Described by Margaret L. Huggins in Astronomy and Astro-Physics, 13, 793-801, 1894

See plates I and II to the ASTROLABE article (signed M.L.H.) in the 11th Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1910

For the style of the rete see Henri Michel, Traité de l'astrolabe, Paris 1947, p.156 and Plate XIV G.E. Hale: Beyond the Milky Way (1926), p/35: Fig.17. Old Persian astrolabe, presented to the author by the late Sir James Dewar.

See also G.R. Kaye The Astronomical Observatories of Jay Singh (Calcutta 1918), p.16 and Figs.9, 12, 15, 16 on Plates III and IV.

This is an unofficial website I created to share the wonders of Carnegie Observatory's Persian Astrolabe. It is eventually my task to make a secure museum display case for this piece of art, but in the meantime it is kept locked away. So, I want people to be able to at least be exposed to pictures.