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Diptych Dial, French, c. 1620

Inventory Number 37449


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.37449

Subject
Sundials
Item type
Object
Provenance
Not ascertained
Primary inscriptions
Unsigned and undated
Object type
Diptych dial
Dimensions
Height: 77mm Width: 60mm Depth: 19mm
Inventory No
37449
Accession Number
1957-84/89

Description

1a universal equinoctial and polar dials; 1b southern part of equinoctial dial, plummet, latitude list and latitude scale; 2a horizontal string-gnomon dial, lunar volvelle, compass and continuation of latitude list; 2b line decoration.