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Marble Globe Dial, German?, 17th Century?

Inventory Number 36500


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.36500

Item type
Object
Provenance
Purchased.
Primary inscriptions
"P.M.P.R."
Physical material
Marble
stone
brass.
Object type
Dial
Dimensions
Diameter: 90mm
Inventory No
36500
Accession Number
1952-98

Description

Square stone base with hour and lunar scales; central brass pillar supports marble sphere marked with hour and solar declination lines, brass semicircular plate with zodiacal scale pivots on polar axis.