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• A Treatise on the Astrolabe, by Geoffrey Chaucer
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• Ghunyat al-ṭullāb fī maʻrifat rusūm ālat al-asṭurlāb : manuscript, [1713]. (1713), by ʻAbd al-Qādir ibn ʻUthmān Ādanī and Max Meyerhof (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hādhihi risālat al-asṭurlāb : manuscript, [18th century?]. (in the 18th century), by Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn ʻĀmilī (page images at HathiTrust)
• Risālah fī al-aṣṭurlāb : manuscript, [14th century?]. (in the 14th century), by Wayjan ibn Rustam Qūhī (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb ... etc., between 1126 and 1129, i.e. 1714 to 1717]. (1714), by Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn ʻĀmilī, active 1726 ʻAlī ibn Muṣṭafá, Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, Aḥmad ibn Rajab Ibn al-Majdī, and ʻUmar ibn Aḥmad al-Māʼī Chillī (page images at HathiTrust)
• رساله در معرفت اسطرلاب (in the 17th century), by Max Meyerhof (page images at HathiTrust)
• Astrolabij quo primi mobilis motus deprehenduntur canones. (In officina Petri Liechtenstein Coloniẽsis Germani, 1512), by Anglicus Robertus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opere di Orontio Fineo del Delfinato : diuise in cinque parti - arimetica, geometria, cosmografia, & oriuoli (Presso Francesco Franceschi senese, 1587), by Oronce Fine, Ercole Bottrigari, and Cosimo Bartoli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Orontii Finei Delphinatis, regii mathematicarum professoris, De solaribus horologiis & quadrantibus libri quatuor (Apud Gulielmum Cauellat, in pingui gallina ..., 1560), by Oronce Fine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Orontii Finei delphinatis, liberalivm disciplinarvm professoris regii, Protomathesis : opus uarium, ac scitu non minus utile quàm iucundum, nunc primùm in lucem foeliciter emissum : cuius index uniuersalis in uersa pagina continetur. (Impensis Gerardi Morrhij & Ioannis Petri, 1532), by Oronce Fine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Panjāh bāb-i sulṭānī bi-ʻilm-i usṭurlāb. (Columbia University Libraries, 1750), by Rukn ibn Sharaf al-Dīn Āmulī, Abū al-Qāsim Bābur Mīrzā, David Eugene Smith, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Risālah bar usṭurlāb. (Columbia University Libraries, 1650), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mukhtaṣar-i bīst (Columbia University Libraries, 1817), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mutawassiṭāt. (Columbia University Libraries, 1265), by George A. Plimpton, Muḥammad ʻĀrif Bīr Miʻmārān, Muḥammad Saʻīd ibn Ḥarīrīʹzādah, Aḥmad ibn Muṣṭafá, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Nasawī, Muḥammad ibn Shadīd Kāzarūnī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Ṭūsī, ʻAbd al-Muʼmin ibn Yūsuf Urmawī, Archimedes, Ḥasan ibn Mūsá Ibn Shākir, Aḥmad ibn Mūsá Ibn Shākir, Muḥammad ibn Mūsá Ibn Shākir, Thābit ibn Qurrah al-Ḥarrānī, of Samos Aristarchus, of Alexandria Hypsicles, active 2nd century Autolycus, active 1st century B.C. Theodosius, Euclid, of Alexandria Menelaus, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fī sharḥ al-Mulakhkhaṣ (Columbia University Libraries, 1670), by George A. Plimpton, Mūsá ibn Muḥammad Qāḍīʹzādah, Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad ʻImādī, ʻAbd al-ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn Birjandī, Jamāl al-Dīn ibn Maḥfūẓ Baghdādī, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mukhtaṣar-i Bīst dar maʻrifat-i usṭurlāb. (Columbia University Libraries, 1299), by Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Ṭūsī, David Eugene Smith, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kitāb-i asṭurlāb az Muḥaqqiq-i Ṭūsī (Columbia University Libraries, 1700), by Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Ṭūsī, George A. Plimpton, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Astrolabium vranicum generale A necessary and pleasaunt solace and recreation for nauigators in their long iorneying, containing the vse of an instrument or generall astrolabe: newly for them deuised by the author, to bring them skilfully acquainted with all the planets starres, and constellacions of the heauens ... In which, agreeable to the hipothesis of Nicolaus Copernicus, the starry firmament is appointed perpetually fixed and the earth and his horizons continually mouing from west towards the east once about euery 24 houres. Fraught also by new deuise with all such necessary supplements for iudiciall astrology, as Alkabitius & Claudius Dariottus haue deliuered by their tables. Wherevnto for their further delight he hath anexed another inuention, expressing in one face the whole globe terrestriall; with the two great english voyages lately performed round about the world. Compyled by Iohn Blagraue of Reading Gentleman, the same wellwiller to the mathematicks. Anno. 1596. ([London] : Printed by Thomas Purfoot, for William Matts, [1596]), by John Blagrave (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Risālah fī al-ḥisāb (Columbia University Libraries, 1719), by George A. Plimpton, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Ashʻarī, ʻAbd al-Laṭīf ibn Aḥmad Dimashqī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Ibn al-Bannāʼ, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Ibn al-Hāʼim, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sharḥ bar Bīst bāb-i Khvājah Naṣīr dar usṭurlāb (Columbia University Libraries, 1700), by ʻAbd al-ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn Birjandī, Sam Schaefler, Abū al-Ḥasan Dallāl, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Ṭūsī, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Early science in Oxford ... (Oxford, 1920), by R. T. Gunther and A. E. Gunther (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on the astrolabe (Pub. for the Early English Text Society, by N. Trübner & Co., 1872), by Geoffrey Chaucer, 730?-815? Māshāʾallāh, Walter W. Skeat, and al-Miṡrī Mā Shā' Allas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clavius et l'astrolabe ([Gauthier-Villars], 1905), by Jean Mascart (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'astrolabe-quadrant du Musée des antiquités de Rouen. Recherches sur les connaissances mathématiques, astronomiques et nautiques au moyen age (G. Thomas, 1910), by A. Anthiaume and Jules Sottas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Christophori Clavii Bambergensis e Societate Iesv. Astrolabivm. Cvm privilegio. (impensis Bartholomæi Grassi, ex typographia Gabiana, 1593), by Christoph Clavius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ein Astrolab aus dem indischen Mogulreiche (Carl Winter's Universitätsbuchhandlung, 1925), by Josef Frank and Max Meyerhof (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nova et accurata astrolabii geometrici structura, vbi gradus, horumque singula minuta prima, nec non, quadrantis astronomici azimuthalis, quo non solum prima, sed & singula minuta secunda distinctè observari possunt. Una cum utriusque usu, claris & perspicuis exemplis illustrato. Operâ & studio Benedicti Hedraei ... (ex officina Wilhelmi Christiani Boxii, sumptibus auctoris, 1643), by Benedictus Hedraeus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Il trattato sull' astrolabio di Andalò di Negro, ripro dotto dall' edizione ferrarese del 1475 con prefazione del socio Girolamo Bertolotto ... ([Genova], 1892), by Andalò di Negro and Girolamo Bertolotto (page images at HathiTrust)
• Exhibit of early astronomical and mathematical instruments. (Museums of the peaceful arts, 1930), by New York. Museum of science and industry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vtrivsqve astrolabii tam partiovlaris qvam vniversalis fabrica et vsvs. Sine vllius retis, aut dorsi adminiculo ... (typis Christiani Ouvverx, 1602), by Gerhard Stempel and Adrianius Zeletius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Verwendung des Astrolabs nach al Chwârizmî (M. Mencke, 1922), by Josef Frank and al-Khuwārazmī Muhammad ibn Mūsa (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early science in Oxford (Printed for the Subscribers, 1945), by R. T. Gunther and Robert Hooke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das kugelförmige Astrolab (M. Mencke, 1925), by Hugo Seeman, Theodor Mittelberger, and King of Castile and Leon Alfonso X (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Bedeutung des Astrolabiums für die See-Schiffahrt und seine Verwendung bis zur Einführung des Spiegelsextanten. (1909), by Th. H. Johannes Baguette (page images at HathiTrust)
• Über ein in der Königlichen Bibliothek zu Berlin befindliches Arabisches Astrolabium (Druckerei der Königl. akademie der wissenschaften, 1858), by Franz Woepcke and Preussische Staatsbibliothek (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kitāb al-ʻamal bi-al-aṣṭurlāb (Impr. catholique, 1913), by munajjim ʻAlī ibn ʻĪsá (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on the astrolabe : addressed to his son Lowys (Oxford University Press, 1928), by Geoffrey Chaucer and Walter W. Skeat (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sur une mère d'astrolabe arabe du xiiie siècle (609 de l'hégire) portant un calendrier perpétuel avec correspondance musulmane et chrétienne. (Imprimerie nationale, 1893), by H. Sauvaire and Joseph Cahrles François de Rey-Pailhade (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sefer Kele nehọshet (Gedruckt in der Hartungschen Hofbuchdruckerei, 1845), by Abraham ben Meïr Ibn Ezra (page images at HathiTrust)
• The treatise on the astrolabe (J.R. Smith, 1870), by Geoffrey Chaucer and Andrew Edmund Brae (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on the astrolabe : addressed to his son Lowys (Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner, 1872), by Geoffrey Chaucer, al-Misri Ma Shaʼ Allah., and Walter W. Skeat (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on the astrolabe : addressed to his son Lowys (Published for the Chaucer Society, by N. Trübner & Co., 1872), by Geoffrey Chaucer, 730?-815? Māshāʼallāh, and Walter W. Skeat (page images at HathiTrust)
• On Champlain's astrolabe lost on the 7th June, 1613, and found in August, 1867 : considered in solution of an obscurity in his journal of his first voyage up the Ottawa ; and the great antiquity of astrolabes and origin of their graduation (s.n.], 1879), by A. J. Russell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The astrolabes of Samuel Champlain and Geoffrey Chaucer (s.n.], 1880), by Henry Scadding (page images at HathiTrust)
• Di due astrolabi in caratteri cufici occidentali trovati in Valdagno (Veneto) (F. Ongania, 1880), by Almerico Da Schio (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on the astrolabe : addressed to his son Lowys (Johnson Reprint Corp., 1967), by Geoffrey Chaucer, 730?-815? Māshāʼallāh, and Walter W. Skeat (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zur Geschichte des Astrolabs (Universitäts-Buchdruckerei von Junge & Sohn, 1920), by Josef Frank (page images at HathiTrust)
• Panjāh bāb-i sulṭānī bi-ʻilm-i usṭurlāb. (Columbia University Libraries, 1750), by Rukn ibn Sharaf al-Dīn Āmulī, Abū al-Qāsim Bābur Mīrzā, David Eugene Smith, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Risālah bar usṭurlāb. (Columbia University Libraries, 1650), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mukhtaṣar-i bīst (Columbia University Libraries, 1817), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sharḥ bar Bīst bāb-i Khvājah Naṣīr dar usṭurlāb (Columbia University Libraries, 1700), by ʻAbd al-ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn Birjandī, Sam Schaefler, Abū al-Ḥasan Dallāl, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Ṭūsī, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gewichtsfunktion und Instrumental-Zenitdistanz beim Jobin'schen Prismen-Astrolab (München : Universitäts-Buchdruckerei von Dr. C. Wolf & Sohn, 1923, 1923), by Edwin Hunziker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mukhtaṣar-i Bīst dar maʻrifat-i usṭurlāb. (Columbia University Libraries, 1299), by Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Ṭūsī, David Eugene Smith, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early science in Oxford ... (Oxford, 1923), by R. T. Gunther and A. E. Gunther (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on the astrolabe : addressed to his son Lowys by Geoffrey Chaucer. A.D. 1391 (Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co., 1872), by Geoffrey Chaucer, Walter W. Skeat, and 730?-815? Māshāʼallāh (page images at HathiTrust)
• An apollogie confirmation explanation and addition to the Vranicall astrolabe by the author. ([S.l. : T. Purfoot, 1597?]), by John Blagrave (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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