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Astronomical Ring, German, c. 1700

Inventory Number 46814


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.46814

Item type
Object
Provenance
Presented by Lewis Evans with his collection.
Primary inscriptions
Unsigned and undated.
Object type
Astronomical Ring
Dimensions
Diameter: 116mm
Inventory No
46814
Accession Number
1924-0/part

Description

Brass, with silvered brass hour-ring; with fixed sights to an alidade, and on reverse of the calendar scale a scale for the equation of time; and on reverse of the vertical ring a quadrant of degrees. In leather case with gold braid and chamois lining.