The Catalogue

Instruments · 183

Ferguson solar chronometer, Serial Number: 183 Registered No. 576942

Science Museum Group, London

Instruments · 1568-1590

Original leather case for silver altitude sundial, made by Humfrey Cole, London, 1568-1590.

Science Museum Group, London

Instruments · 1568-1590

Silver altitude sundial made and signed by Humfray Cole, London, 1568-1590. It was made for use in latitude 51°30 secs, in which London is located

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Instruments · 1588

Sundial by Ryther, A. (maker), England, 1588

Science Museum Group, London

Instruments · 1607-1653

Sundial by Allen, Elias, England, 1607-1653

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Instruments · 1623-1700

Armillary / astronomical instrument, England, 1623-1700

Science Museum Group, London

Instruments · 1625-1635

A very high quality horizontal sundial, set out to show individual minutes and signed ‘Elias Allen fecit’. London, c.1630

Science Museum Group, London

Instruments · 1630-1653

Sundial by Allen, Elias, England, 1630-1653

Science Museum Group, London

Instruments · 1636-1700

Sundial incomplete: gnomon missing: wood, 5" square, 1636-1700

Science Museum Group, London

Instruments · 1650-1665

Folding pocket compass and sundial in boxwood case made by Henry Sutton, Threadneedle Street, London, 1650-1665.

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Instruments · 1650-1749

Nocturnal, brass, gilt, diameter of flanged plate 4 in. Handle and pointer in form of serpents, English, late 17th or 18th century with later case

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Instruments · 1650–1699

Nocturnal, iron, English late 17th century. (18-79) V & A M. register.

Science Museum Group, London

Instruments · 1680-1720

Engraved applewood nocturnal, a maritime device for telling the time at night from the stars. English, 1680-1720.

Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Instruments · 1695-1702

Brass sundial and shagreen case, England, 1695-1702, Thomas Tuttell.

Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Instruments · ca. 1700

Sundial, stone, from the village of Ryhope, Sunderland, North England, ca. 1700

Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Instruments · 1698-1702

Analemmatic sundial, brass, by Tuttell, London, England, 1698-1702 (gnomons imperfect) with case.

Science Museum Group, London

Instruments · 1700–1799

A perpetual calendar in brass for determining the dates of Easter in the Julian and the Gregorian calendar. Signed "Hartston Fecit", English, 18th century

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Instruments · 1700-1737

Sundial by Edmund Culpeper, 6-inch azimuth dial signed: "edm, Culpeper, London, fecit" square plate on 3 levelling screws

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Instruments · 1701-1752

Mechanical equinoctial sundial

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Instruments · 1702

Nocturnal boxwood and brass, by Robert Yeff, Bristol, England, dated 1702. Owner and user thought to be E. Dartnell

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Instruments · 1712-1713

Orrery, tellurium or planetary model, c. 1712, made for Charles Boyle, the fourth Earl of Orrery by John Rowley, Fleet Street, London.

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Instruments · 1713

Nocturnal, wood, stamped "Mr Edward Tyzack 1713", Bristol, England

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Instruments · 1731-1776

Azimuth compass sundial by James Ferguson, London, England, 1731-1776. Could also be used as a tablet sundial - string gnomon is missing (see note).

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Instruments · 1732

Brass analemmatic sundial, made by R.White, in 1732 constructed for latitude 52[o], England, United Kingdom

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