EditorialPortable Equatorial, Gilt and engraved brass, cut and blued steel, glass, Scrolled square frame with animal allegories of the Four Continents: camel, horse, lion and monkey; hinged quadrant, hour circle with gnomon and pendulum; in center, recessed cir...
EditorialPortable Compass Sundial. J. Kleininger; German, late 18th to 19th century; Germany. Date: 1785-1795. Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.2 cm (3 7/16 x 2 1/16 in.). Wood, hand-colored etching on paper, and glass with string gnomon. Origin: Germany.
EditorialPortable Equatorial, Gilt and engraved brass, cut and blued steel, glass, Scrolled square frame with animal allegories of the Four Continents: camel, horse, lion and monkey; hinged quadrant, hour circle with gnomon and pendulum; in center, recessed cir...
EditorialSolarium Gnomonica Horology, Sundial and Gnomon, p. 21, 1648, Emanuele Maignan: Perspectiva horaria sive de horographia gnomonica tum theoretica, tum practica libri quatuor [...]. Romae: Typis, & expensis Philippi Rubei, 1648.
EditorialSun Compass, Compass in cardan ring in a wooden box with handles. The square wooden compass boiler is weighted with a lead weight at the bottom. A tilting sundial has been erected on one side: it consists of a circle divided into two times twelve hours...
EditorialPortable Compass Sundial. J. Kleininger; German, late 18th to 19th century; Germany. Date: 1785-1795. Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.2 cm (3 7/16 x 2 1/16 in.). Wood, hand-colored etching on paper, and glass with string gnomon. Origin: Germany.
EditorialPortable Compass Sundial. J. Kleininger; German, late 18th to 19th century; Germany. Date: 1785-1795. Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.2 cm (3 7/16 x 2 1/16 in.). Wood, hand-colored etching on paper, and glass with string gnomon. Origin: Germany.