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Nocturlabe in boxwood and brass.

Nocturlabe in boxwood and brass, the wheels maintained by a central nut presenting an annual calendar divided into months and days, an hour disc and a mobile alidade, the...

$12000 / ≈ €10301
Maker: UNKNOWN
Date: England, ca. 1700

 


Wooden Nocturnal in boxwood and brass.

This exceptional nocturnal is made of  boxwood and brass, the wheels maintained by a central nut, presents an annual calendar divided into months and days, an hour disc,...

$15000 / ≈ €12877
Maker: COOPER, Th.
Date: England, Thomas Cooper, dated 1701

 


A ship's hour glass

The element common to celestial position-finding, the calculation of speed for dead reckoning and even everyday life at sea is the time: hence ways of determining and kee...

$1750 / ≈ €1502
Maker: The Low Countries
Date: ca. 1790