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Equinoctial Dial, Spanish?, 1619

Inventory Number 75822


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.75822

Item type
Object
Provenance
Presented by Lewis Evans
Primary inscriptions
"1619" on upper face of equinoctial dial.
Physical material
Ivory
silver and glass
Object type
Sundial, diptych dial
Dimensions
Height: 18mm Width: 57mm Depth: 72mm Weight: 85g
Inventory No
75822
Accession Number
1924-0/part

Description

Half of the edge housing the latitude strut has been snapped off (now kept with the instrument).

Probably by same maker as inv. 86396