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Horizontal Dial
Unsigned
circa 1500 ?; origin unknown
Brass; 32 mm in diameter

The hour ring and gnomon probably belonged to a horizontal compass dial. The hour ring is marked with hours from IIII to XII to VII, and the folding gnomon is made for latitude circa 30?. It was found in England.

Ilaria Meliconi

Museum of the History of Science, Oxford
Inventory number 34112

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