Japan & the Far East
The Dragon-Guarded Astrolabe at Peking
Original caption: Dragon-Guarded Astrolabe
A large ringed instrument rises above sculpted dragon supports beside another wheeled mechanism. Hayes places the apparatus below the Imperial Observatory at Peking and connects it with the work of Verbiest.
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Maker or photographer not identified. "The Dragon-Guarded Astrolabe at Peking" [source caption]. In The Chinese Dragon, L. Newton Hayes. Third edition, 1923, 1923, The Commercial Press, Limited. Source scan leaf 45. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/chinese-dragon-041
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Maker or photographer not identified. The Dragon-Guarded Astrolabe at Peking. The Chinese Dragon. Scan leaf 45. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/chinese-dragon-041