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Nocturnal and Sundial, Rome, 1578

Inventory Number 48140


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.48140

Item type
Object
Provenance
Collection of J.A. Billmeir
Primary inscriptions
'ROMÆ a. 1578'
Physical material
Gilt copper
Object type
Nocturnal
Dimensions
Diameter: 83mm
Inventory No
48140
Accession Number
1957-84/239

Description

One side has a nocturnal, the other the Rojas projection for the 'organum Ptolemai' form of altitude sundial.