Skip to content
History of Science Museum

Printing Block (Relief) of Naviculum Sundial, Created for Publication by R.T. Gunther, English, c.1923

Inventory Number 18492


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.18492

Item type
Object
Provenance
Found in Museum store with other printing blocks from Oxford University Press for the works of R.T. Gunther.
Physical material
metal
Wood
Paper
Object type
Printing block
Dimensions
Height: 23mm Width: 56mm Depth: 70mm Weight: 78g
Inventory No
18492
Accession Number
2022-

Description

(Metal?) relief printing block mounted on wood, with a paper backing. The block was used to print a line drawing of a naviculum sundial that appeared on p.41 of R.T. Gunther's Early Science in Oxford, vol.2 (Astronomy) which appeared in 1923.