- catalogue number: 14.2019111;
- name of artifact: reproduction of Champlain’s astrolabe;
- date of production: 2004;
- materials of manufacture: Copper-alloy, and stained wood;
- maker: Réal Manseau, “Atelier du Sagittaire”, Drummondville QC;
- provenance: purchased from Réal Manseau;
- condition: excellent condition;
- comparanda: original: Gatineau, Canadian Museum of History, CMC 989.56.1, 1603;
- literature:
- A.J. Russell, On Champlain's Astrolabe: Lost on the 7th June, 1613, and Found in August, 1867, Considered in Solution of an Obscurity in his Journal of his First Voyage up the Ottawa: and the Great Antiquity of Astrolabes, and Origin of their Graduation (Montreal: Burland-Desbarats Lith. Co., 1879);
- Henry Scadding, The Astrolabes of Samuel Champlain and Geoffrey Chaucer (Toronto: Hunter, 1880);
- Alan Stimson, The mariner's Astrolabe: a Survey of Known, Surviving Sea Astrolabes, HES Studies in the History of Cartography and Scientific Instruments 4 (Utrecht : HES Publishers, 1988);
- Randall C. Brooks, “A Problem of Provenance: a Technical Analysis of the "Champlain" Astrolabe”, in Cartographica 36, 3 (1999 Fall), 1-16;
- Randall C. Brooks, “A Problem of Provenance: a Technical Analysis of the "Champlain" Astrolabe”, Geomatica 55, 2 (2001), 161-177 (this is a reprint of the article above).
Type:
Telescope
Description:
Reproduction of Champlain’s Astrolabe
Exhibit Number:
0014.2019111
Exhibit Name:
Reproduction of Champlain’s Astrolabe
Production Circa:
Production Year:
2004
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