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IV.—The Uranical Astrolabe and other Inventions of John Blagrave of Reading

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2011

R. T. Gunther
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The Object of the present communication is to bring together again three closely related items of antiquarian interest, which have got separated, and thus to recombine the parts of a long-forgotten scientific instrument of the Elizabethan Age, the invention of John Blagrave of Reading. Were any one of these three cluesto be lost, it would be impossible to reconstruct his Uranical Astrolabe.

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Archaeologia , Volume 79 , 1929 , pp. 55 - 72
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1929

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page 55 note 1 Wood, , Athenae Oxonienses, ii. 96.Google Scholar

page 65 note 1 Early Engraving in England, 1905, pp. 31–3.Google Scholar

page 67 note 1 A Latin edition was printed at Lyons in 1557.

page 71 note 1 A sepia drawing of the monument, inscribed ‘copied from his Monument at Reading by Mr. Ashmole’ is inserted in thecopy of ‘The Mathematical Jewel’ in the Lewis Evans Collection at Oxford. This copy contains the signatures of Daniell Bentyt, John Edwards 1679, Lewis Evans, F.S.A., and the book-plates of Wm. Simonds Higgs, F.S.A., 1819, and JohnRichards, junr., F.S.A.