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Diptych Dial
Unsigned
circa 1600; Nuremberg
Ivory; 58 x 76 x 3 mm

Only the lower leaf remains of this ivory diptych dial. The outer part has a lunar volvelle with geometrical decoration and two bun feet.

The string gnomon dial is marked for common hours with green lines, and there is a pin gnomon dial for the declination of the sun, indicated in red lines.

Museum of the History of Science, Oxford
Inventory number 55134

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