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Astronomical Ring, by Johan Motter?, Louvain, 1602

Inventory Number 35171


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.35171

Item type
Object
Provenance
Presented by Lewis Evans
Primary inscriptions
"1602" [may have been added later as it is in a different style].
Physical material
Brass
Object type
Astronomical Ring
Dimensions
Diameter: 182mm Height: 219mm Depth: 30mm Weight: 762g
Inventory No
35171
Accession Number
1924-0/part

Description

Brass, calibrated for use by day and by night, with declinations and names of 20 fixed stars marked on the outside of the meridian ring, and within the same ring the Zodiac scale with the same stars. A shadow-scale is marked under the equatorial ring.