- Item type
- Object
- Makers
- Thomas Wright
- Provenance
- Presented by Lewis Evans Made for Campbell Earl of Caithness.
- Primary inscriptions
- "Made by Tho Wright Instrumt./ maker to His MAJESTY."
- Object type
- Equinoctial dial
- Dimensions
- Height: 39mm Width: 157mm Depth: 170mm Weight: 1.2kg
- Inventory No
- 39183
- Accession Number
- 1924-0/part
Description
Square base plate with inset central compass (with adjustable index for variation), geared for equation of time adjustment; four levelling feet. Latitude scale 20-90° passing through centre of hinged hour ring
Case (mentioned in old label) not identified.
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