- Subject
- Calculation
- Item type
- Object
- Makers
- Elias Allen
- Provenance
- Lent by Christ Church, Oxford in 1925.
- Physical material
- Brass
- Object type
- Sector
- Dimensions
- Height: 0.6cm Width: 33cm Depth: 7.1cm Weight: 1124g
- Inventory No
- 14776
- Accession Number
- 1925-43
Description
Brass English 12- inch Gunter's sector, possibly dating to around1620-30, with a wood case. Unsigned and undated, but the style of the numerals suggests the makers Elias or John Allen.
This sector includes the scales of metals, of meridional parts and trigonometrical functions.
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