Gunter sector signed Elias Allen

Made:
1623 in London and London and
maker:
Elias Allen
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Brass sector (Gunter's pattern) by Elias Allen 1623
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Brass sector (Gunter's pattern) by Elias Allen 1623
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, London

Brass sector (Gunter's pattern) by Elias Allen 1623
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, London

Brass Gunter sector made by Elias Allen in 1623
Science Museum Group
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, London

Brass Gunter sector made by Elias Allen in 1623
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© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, London

Brass Gunter sector made by Elias Allen in 1623
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© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, London

Brass Gunter sector made by Elias Allen in 1623
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© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, London

Brass Gunter sector made by Elias Allen in 1623
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© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, London

Brass Gunter sector made by Elias Allen in 1623
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© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Brass Gunter sector made by Elias Allen in 1623, near St Clement's Church (without Temple Bar), London. It is signed 'Elias Allen fecit 1623.'

Elias Allen made the sector according to the designs of the mathematician Edmund Gunter who published a description of it in the same year. Sectors are mathematical instruments that were used for calculations concerning proportion and for making small measurments. They were particularly useful for technical drawing. This example contains logarithmic and trigonometric lines and scales used in drawing and calculations of area and volume. Elias Allen (active 1607-53) was a mathematical instrument maker who was apprenticed to Charles Whitwell in 1602 and became a Freeman of both the Grocers' and Clockmakers' Company (eventually becoming Master of the latter). His workshop was located near St Clement's Church, near what is now Aldwych, in London.

Details

Category:
Mathematics
Object Number:
1976-638
Materials:
brass
Measurements:
Closed: 45 mm x 200 mm x 10 mm, 0.265 kg
type:
sector (gunter)
credit:
Faber, W.E.