Accession No

1037

Brief Description

universal inclining dial, 1800-1900

Origin

Maker

Class

dials

Earliest Date

1800

Latest Date

1900

Inscription Date

Material

metal (brass, silver, steel); wood; cloth (velvet); hide (leather); glass

Dimensions

length 81mm; breadth 79mm; thickness 33mm

Special Collection

Provenance

On loan from Gonville & Caius College, University of Cambridge from 1950.

Inscription

Description Notes

Brass; stands on base of compass box; silvered compass rose with 8 cardinal points divided [0]-[90]-[0] twice by 20 to 2o; blued steel needle; silvered latitude arc divided 60-0 by 10 to 1; silvered hour circle divided IIII-XII and I-VIII by 1 to 5’; folding brass gnomon.
Wooden case lined with purple velvet and covered in morocco leather.

Condition: good; complete.

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