Astrolabes in Shadows


Discover the features offered by Shadows for drawing planispheric astrolabes, universal astrolabes and mariner's astrolabes. The drawings made with Shadows are of great technical and graphical accuracy. Each element can be printed separately in high resolution to realize all the components in solid material and assemble them to produce a complete astrolabe.


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Planispheric astrolabe with its rete and ruler Planispheric astrolabe with transparent rete Rete alone with star pointers astrolabe plate with Italian and Babylonic hours Back of an astrolabe with a shadow square Universal astrolabe with its ecliptic line Universal astrolabe with its ruler and pointer Mariner's astrolabe


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