- Item type
- Object
- Makers
- Michael Bergauuer
- Provenance
- From the Michel Collection; from the Billmeir Collection
- Primary inscriptions
- "MICHAEL BERGAU / UER . A . INSPRUG" in red
- Physical material
- Gilt and silvered brass
- Object type
- Equinoctial dial
- Dimensions
- Height: 86mm Width: 82mm
- Inventory No
- 51664
- Accession Number
- 1957-84/103
Description
Octagonal plate; inset compass; sprung folding plumb level; on the underside two latitude tables in red, a vertical latitude cam turning within a scale 0-60° and a screw (to maintain the elevation of the hour plate?); three feet. The hour plate has an index arm with geared minute dial. In principle the instrument can also serve as a moon dial: within the scale of hours there is a scale for the age of the moon surrounding a rotatable scale of hours. With original leather-covered case.
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