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Description: | This is a horary quadrant marked with Gunter scales and a surveyor's shadow square in the top third. The brass sights on the left edge are intact but the plumb and bob are missing. As is common with boxwood quadrants, the reverse has no nocturnal dial and has therefore not been photographed.
Fitted with sights brass and plumb bob.
5 stars narjed:
Wing of Pegasus, Arcturus, Lions Heart, Bull's eye, Vulture's heart.
Table of R.As of these stars.
Geometrical square in apex.
Latitud 51 30'.
caption: Obverse of Gunter quadrant | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | astrological body: stars: Arcturus astrological body: stars: Vulture's Heart Gunters' quadrants astrological body: stars: Wing of Pegasus astrological body: stars: Bull's Eye | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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