Equinoctial sun-dial with quadrant

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    Cardboard, glass, meta
    1801.
    height 5.3 cm, diameter 12.5 cm

    The sundial is housed in a round-shaped cardboard box under a dome-shaped glass cover. On a coloured scale a metal gnomon with drawn Sun, rays and the markings of hours. Next to astrological symbols there is a Latin inscription that reads: His totus componitur Orbis 1801. In the lower part there are eight points of the compass with a magnetic needle.

    Acquired for the Museum while Mijat Sabljar was its curator.

    M. Skiljan, Stare mjere, Zagreb, 1975, catalogue number 10.


    HPM/PMH-000921


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