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4. c. 1550 Horary and geometric quadrant—Museo di Storia della Scienza, Florence, no. 2509; recto and verso illustrated in Museo di Storia della Scienza, Catalogo
Miniati M. Florence 1991 32 32 155[ ] Planispheric Astrolabe—Museo di Storia della Scienza, Florence, no. 1093 (IC 489); see Miniati, p. 32. 1551 Horary quadrant—British Museum, Department of Medieval and Later Antiquities, 1858.8–21.1. Made for Edward VI and bearing arms of the Royal Tutors, Sir John Cheke and William Buckley; illustrated in F. A. B. Ward, A Catalogue of European Scientific Instruments (London, 1981), pp. 56–7, and plate 149. 1552 Universal Astrolabe with arms of Edward VI, the Duke of Northumberland and Sir John Cheke—Museés Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, Bruxelles (IC 450); recto and verso illustrated in D. W. Waters, The Art of Navigation in England in Elizabethan and Early Stuart Times (London, 1958), plates xxvii and xxviii. c. 1555 Planispheric Astrolabe, made for Edward VI—National Maritime Museum, A36/37-92C (IC 425); incomplete, and with spiral logarithmic rule engraved in the mater by Henry Sutton, 1655. 1559 Planispheric Astrolabe with royal arms, made for Queen Elizabeth—Museum of the History of Science, Oxford (IC 575).
5. For an overview of the period, see
Taylor The Mathematical Practitioners of Tudor and Stuart England Cambridge 1954 20 20 and M. Feingold, The Mathematicians' Apprenticeship; science, universities and society in England, 1560–1640 (Cambridge, 1984); more particularly, see S. Johnston, ‘Mathematical Practitioners and Instruments in Elizabethan England’, Annals of Science, 48 (1991), 319–344.