Slide Rule, by John Rowley, London, c. 1700 | |||||||||||
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| Inventory Number: | 27956 | ||||||||||
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| Persons: | John Rowley | ||||||||||
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| Place Created: | London United Kingdom (England) Europe |
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| Accession Number: | 1925-43 | ||||||||||
| Brief Description: | English 9-inch slide rule Ivory and brass. Signed, "I: Rowley. fec:"; Undated; c.1700 The rule was described by Thomas Wright in his catalogue of the Orrery Collection (1731) as "A 9 inch Ivory Sliding Gunter". The scales marked are M[eridian line], S[ines], T[angents], E[qual] P[arts], N[umbers] and C[hords]. | ||||||||||
| Primary Inscriptions: | Signed, "I: Rowley. fec:" | ||||||||||
| Provenance: | Lent by Christ Church, Oxford in 1925. | ||||||||||
| Collection Group: | Orrery Collection | ||||||||||
| Material(s): |
Ivory and brass | ||||||||||
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