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Sundial layout plate for making sundials, unknown maker, France, 1680-1700
Science Museum Group Collection
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Sundial layout plate for making sundials, unknown maker, France, 1680-1700
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, London
Sundial layout plate for making sundials, unknown maker, France, 1680-1700
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, London
Sundial layout plate for making sundials, unknown maker, France, 1680-1700
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, London
Sundial layout plate for making sundials, unknown maker, France, 1680-1700
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, London
Sundial layout plate for making sundials, unknown maker, France, 1680-1700
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, London
Sundial layout plate for making sundials, unknown maker, France, 1680-1700
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, London
Sundial layout plate for making sundials, unknown maker, France, 1680-1700
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, London
Sundial layout plate for making sundials, unknown maker, France, 1680-1700
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, London
Sundial layout plate for making sundials, unknown maker, France, 1680-1700
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, London
Sundial layout plate for making sundials, unknown maker, France, 1680-1700
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, London
Group shot of Sundial layout plate for making sundials, unknown maker, France, 1680-1700 with Horological gravers from
Science Museum Group Collection
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Sundial layout plate for making sundials, unknown maker, France, 1680-1700
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, London
Science Museum Group
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Tool for making sundials, unknown maker, France, 1680-1700.
This tool was made and used in the workshop of a sundial maker in France. It was used to measure the angle of incline of exterior walls for which sundials were being made. To function accurately, sundials that were fixed to external walls needed to be calibrated to account for the slightest incline.
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Details
- Category:
- Time Measurement
- Object Number:
- 2017-106
- Materials:
- box (wood), brass (copper, zinc alloy), mahogany (wood) and paper (fibre product)
- Measurements:
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overall (lying flat): Height = 12 mm x Width = 290 mm x Depth = 240 mm,
- type:
- template - shaping tool
- taxonomy:
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- furnishing and equipment
- tools & equipment
- credit:
- Tesseract
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