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Inventory no. 32176 - Former Display Label

English QUADRANT (Gunter type)
?c.1700

Brass, in wooden case covered with tooled leather. Unsigned and undated.

On the front is a quadrant sundial of the Gunter type.

On the back is a circular star-map and calendar scale moving over a scale of hours.

The holes in the plate and the rotating disc were probably used to fix the quadrant to a stand.

The plumb-line and bob are not original.

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Lewis Evans Collection

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