Inventory no. 44505 - Former Display Label
English GUNNER'S SECTOR
c.1600
Brass and steel. Unsigned and undated. The scale of degrees on the circular arc is equipped with transversals for estimating divisions of a degree. A closely similar sector, in another collection, is dated 1597.
Other narratives:
- Inventory no. 44505 - Epact entry
- Bennett, J. and Johnston, S., The Geometry of War, 1500-1750 (Oxford, 1996)
- The sixteenth century