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Description: | This brass quadrant with Gunter scales is an unusual example as the scales on the reverse scale read in the opposite direction to other quadrants of the same type.
A brass Gunter quadrant for latitude 51? North. Obverse: degree scale along circumference, divided anticlockwise 1-90, numbered by 10?, subdivided to 1?. The date scale runs from winter solstice to summer solstice and back again, divided to 2 days, except near the solstices. The Equator and Tropics are drawn parallel to circumference. Declination scale on left-hand edge . Line of the eclitpic
caption: Horary Quadrant with Gunter Projection - Front
caption: Horary Quadrant with Gunter Projection - Reverse | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | quadrants | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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