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View full screenBrass astrolabe with a scale of degrees and numeric table for gnomonic purposes on back, made by the astrologer Shri Leelanath for Manirama, North India or Pakistan, 1643 - 1644
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Leelanath, Shri, 1643 (fl.), Maker
Northern India, South Asia
Manirama, Probable designer
Northern India, South Asia
Pakistan, South Asia
1643 - 1644
Brass
Earth in Space (29 Jul 2011)
National Museum of Scotland
Sreeramula Rajeswara Sarma, Yantraraja at Edinburgh: On a Sanskrit Astrolabe made for Manirama in AD 1644, Proceedings of the 13th World Sanskrit Conference 2006, Section 8, SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE IN SANSKRIT, https://archive.org/details/yantrarajaastrolabeinsanskrit/page/n3/mode/2up?q=manirama
North, J.R., 'The Astrolabe', Scientific American 230 (1974), pp 96-106
Waters, D.W., The Plainspheric Astrolabe, London, 1976
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