Research on medieval European astrolabes has hitherto been somewhat haphazard. Most pieces are unsigned and undated, many difficult to assign to a specific region. Some early ones cannot be understood without reference to the Islamic tradition from which they derive. What are perhaps the most important pieces from a historical point of view—the earliest-known astrolabe, from 10th-century Catalonia, and the astrolabe made by the leading astronomer of 15th-century Europe, Regiomontanus,—were declared fakes or suspicious before they could be studied seriously. A detailed study of groups of related instruments, for example, those with Hebrew inscriptions, is a most welcome contribution. A survey of the clearly-identifiable astrolabes made in medieval England (or France or Italy) has never been undertaken; maybe this list might encourage somebody willing to learn the language of instruments to undertake such a task.
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Article
Josefina Rodríguez-Arribas;
(2017)
The Astrolabe Finger Ring of Bonetus de Latis: Study, Latin Text, and English Translation with Commentary
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Article
Knox-Johnston, Robin;
(2013)
Practical Assessment of the Accuracy of the Astrolabe
(/isis/citation/CBB001421461/)
Article
Günther Oestmann;
(2017)
Changing the Angle of Vision: Astrolabe Dials on Astronomical Clocks
(/isis/citation/CBB022779084/)
Book
King, David A.;
(2011)
Astrolabes from Medieval Europe
(/isis/citation/CBB001252994/)
Book
King, David A.;
(2007)
Astrolabes and Angels, Epigrams and Enigmas: From Regiomontanus' Acrostic for Cardinal Bessarion to Piero della Francesca's Flagellation of Christ
(/isis/citation/CBB000953345/)
Chapter
Seyyed Hadi Tabatabaei;
(2019)
The Introduction of the Telescope into Iran before the Nineteenth Century
(/isis/citation/CBB004733557/)
Article
Silke Ackermann;
(2017)
Introduction Hic Sunt Dracones—Astrolabe Research Revisited
(/isis/citation/CBB409584472/)
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Marseille, Raymond de;
Alverny, Marie-Thérèse d';
Burnett, Charles;
Poulle, Emmanuel;
(2009)
Opera omnia. Tome I, Traité de l'astrolabe, [suivi de] Liber cursuum planetarum
(/isis/citation/CBB001252578/)
Article
John Davis;
(2019)
The “Chaucerian” Astrolabe in the British Museum: A Reassessment of Its Dating and Ownership
(/isis/citation/CBB317483807/)
Article
Laura Fernández Fernández;
(2017)
Astrolabes on Parchment: The Astrolabes Depicted in Alfonso X’s Libro del saber de astrologia and Their Relationship to Contemporary Instruments
(/isis/citation/CBB857784780/)
Book
Josefina Rodríguez Arribas;
Charles Burnett;
Silke Ackermann;
Ryan Szpiech;
(2019)
Astrolabes in Medieval Cultures
(/isis/citation/CBB340222573/)
Book
Borrelli, Arianna;
(2008)
Aspects of the Astrolabe: “Architectonica Ratio” in Tenth- and Eleventh-Century Europe
(/isis/citation/CBB000953090/)
Article
Casulleras, Josep;
(2008-2009)
Mathematical Astrology in the Medieval Islamic West
(/isis/citation/CBB001024039/)
Article
John Davis;
(2019)
A Medieval English Astrolabe Now in Innsbruck, Linked to the Lancastrian Court and with a Chaucer Connection
(/isis/citation/CBB689938550/)
Article
Josefina Rodríguez-Arribas;
Charles Burnett;
Silke Ackermann;
(2017)
Astrolabes in Medieval Cultures
(/isis/citation/CBB085146919/)
Article
Flora Vafea;
(2017)
From the Celestial Globe to the Astrolabe Transferring Celestial Motion onto the Plane of the Astrolabe
(/isis/citation/CBB861859693/)
Article
Johannes Thomann;
(2017)
Astrolabes as Eclipse Computers: Four Early Arabic Texts on Construction and Use of the Ṣafīḥa Kusūfiyya
(/isis/citation/CBB303857614/)
Chapter
Rodríguez Arribas, Josefina;
(2014)
Medieval Jews and Medieval Astrolabes: Where, Why, How, and What for?
(/isis/citation/CBB001213984/)
Article
Petra G. Schmidl;
(2017)
Knowledge in Motion: An Early European Astrolabe and Its Possible Medieval Itinerary
(/isis/citation/CBB739695360/)
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Burnett, Charles;
(2000)
Addendum to “King Ptolemy and Alchandreus the Philosopher: The earliest texts on the astrolabe and Arabic astrology at Fleury, Micy and Chartres”
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