Accession No
0865
Brief Description
gun clinometer, attributed to Giacomo (Iacobas) Lusuerg, Italian, c. 1686
Origin
Italy; Rome [based on attributed maker]
Maker
Lusuerg, Giacomo [Iacobas] [attributed]
Class
military; calculating
Earliest Date
1686
Latest Date
1686
Inscription Date
Material
metal (brass, steel)
Dimensions
height 106mm; breadth 90mm; thickness 10mm
Special Collection
Robert Whipple collection
Provenance
Purchased by Robert Stewart Whipple from M. Landau, Paris, France, on 05/04/1938.
Inscription
Description Notes
Gun clinometer, [by Giacomo [Iacobas] Lusuerg], [Italian], c. 1686.
Brass column with two stabilising feet carrying brass and steel plumb bob which moves over arc divided [0] - 70˚, numbered by 10˚, divided to 30´. Central slide with scale divided [0] - 100, numbered by 10, divided to 1; head of slide engraved with ornamental lion’s head.
Condition good; complete.
References
Events
Description
This gun clinometer was made by Giacomo Lusuerg, an instrument-maker based in Modena, who later moved to Rome where he lived and work from 1672 until his death in 1689. Clinometers are instruments used for measuring vertical angles or slopes, and this object would have been used to improve ballistics.
08/07/2014
Created by: Allison Ksiazkiewicz on 08/07/2014
FM:39572
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