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An astrolabe plate engraved with circles of altitude rising to the zenith, lines of azimuth and the horizon in red. Wide and tall formats show two plates for different latitudes.
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Latitude Plate

No. 4 of 20 · free · 300 dpi

What you seeAn astrolabe plate engraved with circles of altitude rising to the zenith, lines of azimuth and the horizon in red. Wide and tall formats show two plates for different latitudes.

What it meansEach plate is a stereographic projection made for one latitude, which is why astrolabes carried several and travellers chose the plate for their city.

Where it worksFits a study or a calm living room, where fine linework can be seen up close.

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2:3 · 7200 × 10800 px4×6 · 8×12 · 12×18 · 16×24 · 20×30 · 24×36 in
3:4 · 5400 × 7200 px6×8 · 9×12 · 12×16 · 18×24 in
4:5 · 7200 × 9000 px4×5 · 8×10 · 16×20 · 24×30 in
11:14 · 3300 × 4200 px11×14 in
A-series · 7023 × 9933 pxA5 · A4 · A3 · A2 · A1

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The back of an astrolabe drawn in brass lines on lapis, with its degree scales, a sine grid, hour arcs, the shadow square and a sighting alidade.Shadow SquareNo. 5
A brass celestial globe on a turned stand, marked with the equator, the ecliptic and constellation lines set with pale stars, held in a meridian ring and a horizon ring.Celestial GlobeNo. 6
An armillary sphere of interlocking brass rings around a small earth: horizon, meridian, equator, ecliptic, tropics and a colure.ArmillaryNo. 7
A round chart of the northern sky centred on the pole, with lines joining the stars of the Great Bear, the Little Bear, Draco, Cassiopeia and their neighbours, and the ecliptic dashed in red.Northern SkyNo. 8
A sine quadrant hanging on its plumb line, its grid of sixty divisions crossed by red semicircles and a finely graduated arc.Sine QuadrantNo. 9
A vertical sundial set into a pointed niche in a stone mosque wall, with its hour lines, the equinox line in blue, the solstice curves in red and the gnomon's shadow across the plate.Wall DialNo. 10
A diagram of a water-driven castle clock: a ring dial, a crescent moving along its rail, rows of doors that open hour by hour, lit roundels and a cutaway reservoir with its float.Castle ClockNo. 11
A sheet of regular polygons, among them the hexagon, the pentagon, the octagon and the twelve-sided figure, each shown with the circles and crossing arcs of its compass construction and its corners marked in red.Compass WorkNo. 12

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