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Architectonic Sector (Carwitham Pattern), by Thomas Heath, London, c. 1720-30

Inventory Number 25362


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.25362

Item type
Object
Provenance
Purchased with support from the PRISM Fund.
Primary inscriptions
"T * Heath London"
Physical material
Silver
Object type
Sector
Dimensions
Height: 9inches
Inventory No
25362
Accession Number
2006-9

Description

Design to the pattern of Thomas Carwitham, as published by Thomas Heath in 1723. This example is described in Tesseract, Early Scientific Instruments: Catalogue 81 (Hastings-on-Hudson, NY: Tesseract, 2005), no. 24.