- Subject
- Calculation
- Item type
- Object
- Makers
- Johan Motter
- 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.
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