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L'vsage de l'astrolabe, : avec vn petit traicté de la sphere,

Jacquinot, Dominique, 16th cent, Bassantin, James, -1568 · 1559 · A Paris, : Chez Guillaume Cauellat, à l'enseigne de la poulle grasse, deuant le college de Cambray. · 28 pictures

A 1559 Paris treatise on using the astrolabe, written by Dominique Jacquinot and published by Guillaume Cauellat, with a short section on the sphere, aimed at students of astronomy and navigation. The four pictures are plain line diagrams: a horizon and meridian circle with zodiac and degree scales, a numbered 360-degree graduated ring, and a square chart of the twelve celestial houses labelled in French and Latin, offering a designer clean, geometric, schematic instructional imagery.

Astrolobes

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