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Rana Ibrahim, the Museum’s Collections Project Officer (Multaka-Oxford), tells us about her favourite object, an astrolabe engraved with a Quranic verse.

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My favourite object: an Earl’s armillary sphere https://blogs.mhs.ox.ac.uk/insidemhs/favourite-object-armillary-sphere/ https://blogs.mhs.ox.ac.uk/insidemhs/favourite-object-armillary-sphere/#respond Tue, 22 Jan 2019 16:11:41 +0000 https://blogs.mhs.ox.ac.uk/insidemhs/?p=1962

Helen Pooley, the Museum's Primary Education Officer, tells us about her favourite object in the History of Science Museum: an Earl's armillary sphere.

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