Accession No

0183

Brief Description

universal inclining dial, by Peuxehdax, 1850 (c)

Origin

Maker

Peuxehdax

Class

dials

Earliest Date

1850

Latest Date

1850

Inscription Date

Material

metal (brass, silver, steel); glass

Dimensions

length 140mm; diameter 92mm; thickness 44mm

Special Collection

Robert Whipple collection

Provenance

Purchased by Robert Stewart Whipple from R. Middegaels, Paris, France, on 10/01/1925.

Inscription

‘PeuxeHdax’

Description Notes

Brass; set on a compass box as foot (?); 3 adjustable turned feet; locking bar for compass; silvered 8 point compass rose and (on a higher level) 0-90-0 x 2 by 10 to 1o; steel compass needle; round the rim a list of towns and latitudes in Russian including ‘Mockca 55o 45’; silvered latitude arc [55o] - 90o by 10 to 1o; clamping screw to hold hour circle in place; silvered hour circle IIII-XII and I-VIII by 30’ to 5’; folding gnomon.

Condition: fair; complete.

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