Silver sector signed by Culpeper

Made:
1700-1737 in Moorfields and London
maker:
Edmund Culpeper
Silver sector made by Edmund Culpeper and signed 'Culpeper Silver sector made by Edmund Culpeper and signed 'Culpeper Silver sector, engraved "Culpeper Fecit" by Culpeper, Edmund Very early Culpeper microscope

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Silver sector made by Edmund Culpeper and signed 'Culpeper
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, London

Silver sector made by Edmund Culpeper and signed 'Culpeper
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, London

Silver sector, engraved "Culpeper Fecit" by Culpeper, Edmund
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, London

Very early Culpeper microscope
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, London

Silver sector made by Edmund Culpeper and signed 'Culpeper Fecit" between 1700-37, Moorfields, London.

Sectors are mathematical instruments that were used for calculations concerning proportion and for making small measurments. They were particularly useful for technical drawing. Edmund Culpeper (active 1684-1737) was a mathematical instrument maker, whose workshop the 'Old Mathematical Shop' was located at Moorfields in London. He was apprenticed to Walter Hayes in 1684, became a Freeman of the Grocers' Company in 1713 and took over Hayes' business at Moorfields.

Details

Category:
Mathematics
Object Number:
1938-746
Materials:
silver
type:
proportion drawing instruments and sectors
credit:
Thomas H. Court