Box of sixty boxwood calculating rods, four missing

Made:: 1690-1710

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Box of sixty boxwood calculating rods, four missing, inked on four faces for calculations to base 60, late 17th or early 18th century from association with Towneley circle

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Category:: Mathematics

Object Number:: 1987-411

Materials:: box (wood), oak (wood)

type:: calculating rod

credit:: Sotheby's (New Bond St)

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