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Swedish Museum to Recover Lost Scientific Artifact

A rare 16th-century scientific instrument used by early astronomers that has been missing from a Swedish museum for around a decade has been recovered and will be returned this week, the London-based Art Loss Register says.



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A portable astronomical watch known as an astrolabe, made in Joseon Dynasty in the late 18th Century, had been found and returned to Korea.
Jeon Sang-un, a science historian and member of the Cultural Properties Committee, said on Thursday that he bought and brought the astrolabe that a Japanese person took during the Japanese colonial rule after being made in 1787 back to Korea.

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