Epact: Mining Instruments unsigned, later 16th century

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Mining Instruments
Unsigned
Later 16th century; German
Wood, ivory, brass; 169 mm in diameter

Sets of mine surveying instruments first survive from the 16th century and often include a range of parts and accessories. This example has an original wooden box whose carved compartments show that a number of components have disappeared.

The surviving items include a decorated compass, a brass index arm, an ivory hanging clinometer, an ivory folding square and a brass combination line-clinometer and plumb level.

Museum of the History of Science, Oxford
Inventory number 18523

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