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Equinoctial dial
    • Setting:
      Room II
    • Maker:
      Thomas Haye
    • Place:
      Paris
    • Date:
      ca. 1705
    • Materials:
      brass; case: fishskin, velvet
    • Dimensions:
      96x90 mm
    • Inventory:
      2479
    • Equinoctial dial (Inv. 2479)
    • Equinoctial dial (Inv. 2479)

This octagonal equinoctial dial is universal, i.e., it functions at all latitudes. Complete with case lined in black velvet. Made by T. Haye, about whom we have no information.

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