Accession No

0343

Brief Description

universal equinoctial dial, German, 2/2 18th C

Origin

Germany

Maker

Class

dials

Earliest Date

1750

Latest Date

1800

Inscription Date

Material

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

Dimensions

case length 145mm; breadth 136mm; thickness 45mm

Special Collection

Robert Whipple collection

Provenance

Purchased by Robert Stewart Whipple from Antique Art Galleries, London, on 30/11/1927.

Inscription

Description Notes

Decorated octagonal brass base, decoration picked out in red; 4 adjustable feet. Inset compass with silvered base, marked with cardinal points and magnetic variation at 15˚W of N. Plumb-bob on gallows. Hour circle segment, divided on inner rim IIII - XII, I - VIII, numbered by I, subdivided to 15 minutes (see history file for notes on inscription). (Folding pin gnomon on diametrical bar; 31-1-2000). Latitude arc divided 20˚ - 70˚, numbered by 10˚, subdivided to 30´ (divided wrongly, over 40˚; 31-1-2000). Reverse of compass box with list of towns and latitudes.
(Wooden case, covered with leather (?), lined in paper; 31-1-2000).

Complete.

[NOTE: On 15/04/2015 XRF analysis was conducted on this instrument. Results and analysis are given in the ‘Notes’ field.]

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