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Johann Wagner

Johann Wagner was a German maker active in Nuremberg. Two instruments of his are known, a signed astrolabe dated 1538 (in the Museum of History of Science in Oxford) and an armillary sphere, dated 1540 in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg.

For instruments by Johann Wagner, see:

Astrolabe, Signed by Johann Wagner, Nuremberg, Dated 1538 (Oxford, MHS)

References:

E. Zinner, Deutsche und Niederl?ndische astronomische Instrumente des 11. bis 18. Jahrhunderts (2nd ed., Munich, 1967), p. 580.

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