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string-gnomon sundial
string-gnomon sundial

string-gnomon sundial

Date1750
Inventory Number7208
ClassificationSundial
Subject
    Maker German
    Cultural Region
      Place of Origin
        Dimensions8.4 × 7.7 × 6.3 cm (3 5/16 × 3 1/16 × 2 1/2 in.)
        Material
          DescriptionHorizontal brass dial with a rectangular chapter ring marked VI to XII to I to VI with 15 minute subdivisions. The string gnomon is supported with a fixed post that originally also supported a plummet. The gnomon is designed for a latitude of 48° 45'.The compass rose is divided into 16 points with 4 points marked NO, OS, SU , and WE.,rectangular
          Object Name: Horizontal Dial with Compass and fixed string gnomon and plummet
          Curatorial RemarksChristie's DC830/120. Origin is probably Germany.
          FunctionTime finding at one latitude after orienting the gnomon to point toward true North.
          ProvenanceJoseph Drecker, Aachen, Germany, before 1928 (no. 81); Frederik Casparus Wieder, Noordwijk, The Netherlands, 1928; David P. Wheatland, Topsfield, MA, 1959; gift to CHSI, c. 1987.
          string-gnomon sundial
          string-gnomon sundial
          Date: 1850
          Object number: 7212
          string-gnomon sundial
          string-gnomon sundial
          Pierre Le Maire II
          Date: circa 1745
          Accessories: plum bob; case
          Object number: 7870
          string-gnomon sundial
          string-gnomon sundial
          J. F. Kynast
          Date: circa 1725
          Object number: 7207
          string-gnomon sundial
          string-gnomon sundial
          German
          Date: 1900
          Object number: 7213
          string-gnomon sundial
          string-gnomon sundial
          Chinese
          Date: 1850
          Accessories: case
          Object number: 7211
          string-gnomon sundial
          string-gnomon sundial
          Hayashikisuke?
          Date: 1910
          Object number: 7958
          inclining, double-string-gnomon sundial
          inclining, double-string-gnomon sundial
          Jacques le Maire
          Date: 1738
          Accessories: case; plumb bob
          Object number: 7416
          string-gnomon sundial
          string-gnomon sundial
          Johann Martin
          Date: circa 1700
          Accessories: case
          Object number: 7229
          string-gnomon sundial
          string-gnomon sundial
          Chinese
          Date: 1850
          Accessories: tray
          Object number: 7206
          string-gnomon sundial
          string-gnomon sundial
          C. H. Schindler
          Date: 1725
          Object number: 7231
          compass sundial
          compass sundial
          Edmund Culpeper
          Date: 1700-1737
          Accessories: None.
          Object number: 7484
          string-gnomon sundial
          string-gnomon sundial
          Chinese
          Date: 1850
          Accessories: case
          Object number: 7205