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Gunter's Sector, by John Rowley, London, c. 1700

Inventory Number 23106


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.23106

Item type
Object
Provenance
Lent by Christ Church, Oxford in 1925.
Primary inscriptions
Signed, "I: Rowley. fecit:"
Object type
Sector
Dimensions
Height: 0.8cm Width: 24.2cm Depth: 5.2cm Weight: 0.2kg
Inventory No
23106
Accession Number
1925-43

Description

English 9-inch Gunter's sector

Ivory and silver. Signed, "I: Rowley. fecit:". Undated; c.1700.

There are scales for Sin[es], Tan[gents], Cho[rds], Sec[ants], Lin[es], Num[bers] and Poll[ygons].