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Plotting Scale, English, c. 1700

Inventory Number 16400


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.16400

Item type
Object
Provenance
Lent by Christ Church, Oxford in 1925.
Dimensions
Height: 0.3cm Width: 30.5cm Depth: 3.3cm
Inventory No
16400
Accession Number
1925-43

Description

English 12-inch box wood plotting scale.

Unsigned and undated; c.1700.

On one side are a scale of inches divided in 1/10ths and the ordinary plotting scale with diagonal lines. On the other side are scales of Le[agues], Rum[bs], Cho[rds], Sin[es], Tan[gents], H[alf] T[angents] and Lon[gitudes].