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    • Astronomicum Caesareum, 1540
    Michael Ostendorfer (German, active 1520–49); Written by Petrus Apianus (German, 1495–1552)
    Hand–colored woodcuts; H. 17 7/8 x W. 12 3/4 x D. 1 3/8 in. (45.4 x 32.3 x 3.3 cm)
    Gift of Herbert N. Straus, 1925 (25.17)

    This most sumptuous of all Renaissance instructive manuals explained the use of the astrolabe (for calculating the altitude of stars) and other instruments used for computing planetary positions. The author, court astronomer to Emperor Charles V, also provided new observations on the comet of 1531 (Halley's Comet). Only about forty copies of this work survive; very few still have the seed pearls that were originally attached to the string markers on each of the eighteen disks.

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  • Nickel, Helmut. "Arms and Armor." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 32, no. 4 (1974)
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  • Nickel, Helmut. "Arms and Armor." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 32, no. 4 (1974)
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  • Ettinghausen, Richard. "Islamic Art." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 33, no. 1 (Spring, 1975).
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  • Hunter, Penelope. "Art Déco: The Last Hurrah." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 30, no. 5 (June–July, 1972).
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  • Vincent, Clare. "A Beam Compass by Christoph Trechsler the Elder and the Origin of the Micrometer Screw." Metropolitan Museum Journal, Vol. 24 (1989).
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  • Nickel, Helmut. "Arms and Armor: From the Permanent Collection." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 49, no. 1 (Summer, 1991).
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  • Draper, James David. "Philippe-Laurent Roland in the Metropolitan Museum of Art." Metropolitan Museum Journal, Vol. 27 (1992).
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  • Frelinghuysen, Alice Cooney. "Louis Comfort Tiffany at The Metropolitan Museum." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 56, no. 1 (Summer 1998).
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    • Astronomicum Caesareum, 1540
    Michael Ostendorfer (German, active 1520–49); Written by Petrus Apianus (German, 1495–1552)
    Hand-colored woodcuts; H. 17 7/8 x W. 12 3/4 x D. 1 3/8 in. (45.4 x 32.3 x 3.3 cm)
    Gift of Herbert N. Straus, 1925 (25.17)

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