Signed: W.B. and W: BURUCKER. NORI: [Nuremberg]

Early 18th century

  Fig. 33 (first on left).

As with other combined gunnery instruments in the exhibition this German instrument has a levelling arc offset from the upright of a sight. The sight moves in a slot against a scale of equal parts from 0-36 while the plummet moves over a scale of degrees from 0-45 and is constrained by a guard. The instrument still has its original leather-covered wooden case.

The maker Burucker was active in Nuremberg in the first half of the 18th century and is also known to have produced sundials (Zinner, p. 277).

Height: 117 mm

Inventory no. 47,357