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Diptych Dial
Unsigned
Dated 1589; Italian
Ivory and gilt brass; 62 x 73 x 12 mm

A gilt brass plate covers completely the inner side of the lower ivory leaf of this diptych dial, which is very uneven.

On the outer side of the upper leaf a complicated lunar volvelle is perhaps incomplete.

Museum of the History of Science, Oxford
Inventory number 72365

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