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Description: | a) Wooden cube with wooden angled handles and short brass balancing arm length 43 mm, b) Stand for cube with balancing point. Circular brass disc stamped ' Univ. Abdn. Nat. Phil.'. Item used for collection logo. Similar to item in 1790 catalogue of Thomas Jones(?). One handle has sellotape repair at wood/metal join. Visitors' Centre caption "Late eighteenth-century mechanical demonstration from Professor Copland's cabinet, showing a cube with handles balancing beyond its edge with support under the centre of gravity of the whole shape" | License: | http://www.abdn.ac.uk/historic/Copyright_terms_conditions.shtml | Publisher: | ABDNP University of Aberdeen, Natural Philosophy Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments | Rights holder: | 47718 | Temporal: | 1790-1810 | Source: | University of Aberdeen | Creator: | Professor Patrick Copland | Identifier: | http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.e... | Go to resource |
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