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Horizontal Dial
Signed by Humfrey Cole
Dated 1579; London
Brass; 180 mm x 180 mm

A horizontal dial intended to be set up in a garden, this instrument carries a compass rose of directions as well as its hour ring for indicating the time.

In addition to his own name, the maker has added that of the Elizabethan owner of the dial, Sir Henry Darcy.

Museum of the History of Science, Oxford
Inventory number 51646

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