- Item type
- Object
- Provenance
- Presented by Lewis Evans
- Primary inscriptions
- Unsigned and undated
- Physical material
- Brass and glass
- Object type
- Equinoctial dial
- Dimensions
- Height: 25mm Width: 117mm Depth: 117mm Weight: 387g
- Inventory No
- 40255
- Accession Number
- 1924-0/part
Description
Square plate with scale of degrees and diagonal divisions; rotating central compass box with index reading against diagonals, folding plummet, folding latitude quadrant, and hinged equinoctial ring; list of latitudes on base of compass.
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