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Diptych Dial, French, c. 1620

Inventory Number 40541


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.40541

Subject
Sundials
Item type
Object
Provenance
Presented by J. A. Billmeir with his collection.
Primary inscriptions
Unsigned and undated
Object type
Diptych dial
Dimensions
Height: 76mm Width: 60mm Depth: 14mm
Inventory No
40541
Accession Number
1957-84/90

Description

1a universal equinoctial and polar dials (gnomon missing); 1b combined lunar volvelle and southern part of equinoctial dial, latitude listing and latitude scale; 2a horizontal string-gnomon dial, compass, folding strut and continuation of latitude listing; 2b line decoration.