Skip to content
History of Science Museum

Inclining Analemmatic Dial, attributed to Thomas Tuttell, London, c. 1697

Inventory Number 54359


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.54359

Item type
Object
Provenance
Presented by Lewis Evans
Primary inscriptions
Unsigned
Physical material
Brass
Object type
Inclining dial
Dimensions
Height: 150mm Width: 95mm
Inventory No
54359
Accession Number
1924-0/part

Description

Design almost identical to that published by Tuttell. Rectangular plate hinged to fold in half; one half carrying horizontal (inclining) dial with sprung folding gnomon with integral plumb level for 30-80° (plummet missing); the other half carrying the azimuth dial with folding gnomon on cursor moving against a combined calendar, zodiac and declination scale. Three edges of this half-plate are marked as a rectangular protractor and there are two levelling screws. On the reverse of this half plate is a perpetual almanac 1697-1758.