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Regiomontanus
1462

‘Umar ibn Yusuf ibn ‘Umar ibn ‘Ali ibn Rasul al-Muzaffari
dated 690 AH/1291 CE

Muhammad Zaman al-Munajjim al-Asturlabi
dated 1065 AH/1654–55 CE

Anjam people
mid to late 19th century

French
ca. 1550–82

Kubo Shunman
1795, year of the rabbit

Multiple artists/makers
ca. 1478–82

Tami Islands
mid to late 19th century

Michael Ostendorfer
Author Petrus Apianus
Printer Georg and Petrus Apianus
May 1540

German
18th century

Movement attributed to Master CR
Stem and foot probably cast from designs by Matthias Zündt
Band of case from design by Cornelis Bos
ca. 1565–70

Movement by Bartholomew Newsam
1580–85

Cabinetry by the workshop of Melchior Baumgartner
Silversmith Jeremias Sibenbürger
Silver plaques possibly by a member of the Lencker family
ca. 1655–59, engraved decorations ca. 1825–50

French
ca. 1690–1710

German
late 16th century

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus
ca. 1587–89

German
early 19th century

Francesco Villamena
1606

David Vinckboons
early 17th century

Theodoor Galle
After Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus
Publisher Philips Galle
ca. 1600

Claude Dunod
1714

Anonymous, German, 16th century
after 1544

German
ca. 1580

Paulus Reinman
1602

European
19th century

John Potter
ca. 1790

William Collier
18th century

Angelus Lusuergh
1747

Former Attribution Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien)
probably first half of the 16th century
Japan
18th–19th century

T. W.
17th century

Thomas Wright
1740

Jonathan Sisson
Jeremiah Sisson
18th century

Johann Mathias Willebrand
ca. 1721–26

Italian, Rome
1695
![New Inventions of Modern Times [Nova Reperta], Amerigo Vespucci Discovering the Southern Cross with an Astrolabium, plate 18, Jan Collaert I Netherlandish, Engraving](https://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/dp/web-additional/DP841115.jpg)
Jan Collaert I
After Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus
Publisher Philips Galle
ca. 1600

Lorenz Gräsl
ca. 1772–90

European
19th century

Willem Jansz Blaeu
after 1621

Johann Klocksperger
late 17th–early 18th century
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