Schickard, Astroscopium (1698)
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Schickard, a friend of Kepler’s, designed this “astroscopium,” a model intermediate between a planisphere and a celestial globe, to calculate the positions of the stars for any day and hour of the year.
Schickard also devised a calculating machine to produce astronomical tables according to Kepler’s laws.
The constellations in Shickard's Astroscopium identify the constellations with biblical characters, in addition to the commonly accepted ancient names.
Print the plates and you can assemble your own Astroscopium model.