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Diptych Dial, by Paul Reinmann, Nuremberg, 1612

Inventory Number 84206


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.84206

Subject
Sundials
Item type
Object
Provenance
Presented by Lewis Evans
Primary inscriptions
Unsigned and undated
Physical material
Ivory and gilt brass
Object type
Diptych dial
Dimensions
Height: 20mm Width: 100mm Depth: 140mm Weight: 0.4kg
Inventory No
84206
Accession Number
1924-0/part

Description

Wind rose; two vertical pin-gnomon dials and latitude table; compass, horizontal string-gnomon dial and two scaphe dials; lunar volvelle (disc missing) and table of epacts.