The Christian-Island Astrolabe
Abstract
A device bearing the date 1595 was found in the 1920s on the site of a seventeenth-century Jesuit mission on Christian Island, near Penetang, Ontario. Although broken, it clearly shows many of the same scales as an astrolabe described in 1545 by Focard.
- Publication:
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Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
- Pub Date:
- June 1986
- Bibcode:
- 1986JRASC..80..142B