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Description: | MANU Bion, N. 1710-1730 Paris France This is a 'Butterfield-type' portable horizontal compass sundial, made by the Paris manufacturer of scientific and mathematical instruments, Nicolas Bion (1652 - 1733).
This design includes a compass, and the popular 'little Bird' adjustable gnomon. The latitudes of notable European cities (principally French) are inscribed on the reverse.
Bion describes how to manufacture, decorate, calibrate, and use this same model of sundial in his 1709 work 'Traité de la construction et des principaux usages des instruments de mathématique'. Several editions of this tome were published in France; it was later translated into English by Edmund Stone. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | HOROLOGY : DIAL : CHRONOMETER : SCIENTIFIC COLLECTION : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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