Epact Scientific Instruments of Medieval and Renaissance Europe

Although lacking the sights which would equip it for surveying and other observational work, the instrument is evidently closely related to the first published pattern for the English sector. It would have been used chiefly with a pair of dividers as a geometrical device for proportions and graphical calculation.

Museum of the History of Science, Oxford
Inventory number 38251

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