Accession No

0171

Brief Description

analemmatic dial, English, 1/4 18th C

Origin

England

Maker

Class

dials

Earliest Date

1700

Latest Date

1725

Inscription Date

Material

metal (brass)

Dimensions

Special Collection

Robert Whipple collection

Provenance

Purchased by Robert Stewart Whipple from T. H. Court on 16/10/1924.

Inscription

Description Notes

Hinged brass plate with 3 feet (2 levelling screws). Standard inclining dial with pierced and decorated gnomon carrying latitude scale divided 30˚ - 80˚, numbered by 10˚, subdivided to 1˚ (lacks plumb bob); 8 point compass rose; hour scale divided IIII - XII, I - VIII, numbered by I, subdivided to 5 minutes; when horizontal gnomon is set for 52˚ N. Horizontal azimuth dial plate with decorated perpendicular gnomon sliding over date scale divided to initialled month, subdivided to 5 days; zodiac scale also marked by sign and divided to 1˚ (1st Aries = 10th March); elliptical hour scale divided IIII - XII, I - VIII, numbered by I, subdivided to 5 minutes; degree scale around border divided 60˚ - 90˚ - 0 - 90˚ - 60˚, numbered by 10˚, subdivided to 1˚. Reverse of azimuth plate carries sunrise and sunset scale along slit. ‘Sun rises’ divided IIII - VIII; ‘Sun Sets’ divided VIII - IIII; both numbered by I and subdivided to 5 minutes.

Good condition.

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