- Subject
- Navigation
- Item type
- Object
- Provenance
- Lent by Christ Church, Oxford in 1925.
- Primary inscriptions
- Signed, "Iohn Rowley Londini Fecit"
- Object type
- Compass
- Dimensions
- Height: 2.5cm Width: 19.2cm Depth: 2cm Weight: 0.15kg
- Inventory No
- 28201
- Accession Number
- 1925-43
Description
English proportional dividers
Silver and steel; with fish-skin covered wooden case. Signed, "Iohn Rowley Londini Fecit". Undated, c.1700.
These proportional dividers can be used for linear, circular, square and cubic measurement, for which there are graduated scales marked, "D Lineæ rectæ", "Diuisiones Circuli", "Diuisiones Planorum", and "Diuisiones Solidorum".
