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The rete on its own, drawn in ink on paper: the rim, the equator ring, the off-centre ecliptic band with its degree marks, a row of five roundels, and slender pointers whose tips mark the places of bright stars.
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What you seeThe rete on its own, drawn in ink on paper: the rim, the equator ring, the off-centre ecliptic band with its degree marks, a row of five roundels, and slender pointers whose tips mark the places of bright stars.

What it meansMakers gave the rete flowing, decorative forms, but every pointer sits exactly where a named star falls on the projected sky.

Where it worksA quiet, graphic piece for a bedroom or a pale wall.

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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.Latitude PlateNo. 4
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

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