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Astrolabe

Artist Unknown

ca. 1550

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Watch-like device with concentric circles, inner geometric shapes and hands.

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Detail from Ketubah (Damascus), Artist Unknown.

Courtesy of The Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary, KET 158.

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Uri Shulevitz, excerpts from The Treasure (New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1978), pp. 16–19, 24–25. Copyright © 1979 by Uri Shulevitz. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC. All rights reserved.