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Description	English: Depiction of the en:sextant used in astronomy and astrology by the Ottoman Observatory in Istanbul and by the office of müneccimbaşı (chief astrologer) in the 16-17th centuries.
Date	second half of the 16th century
Source	illustration-dipicting-taqi-al-din-s-sextant-in-the-istanbul-observatory/BwHb2wfHbqjEjQ — Google Arts & Culture
Author	From Al-âlât al rasadiya li-zij al-shahinshahiyya, by en: Taqi al-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf, Library of the en:Topkapi Palace Museum, Hazine 452, fol. 14b
Other versions	published in several works treating science in Turkish and/or Islamic history

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