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Nautical compass
    • Setting:
      Room V
    • Maker:
      unknown
    • Place:
      English
    • Date:
      late 16th cent.
    • Materials:
      brass
    • Dimensions:
      length and width 670 mm (open)
    • Inventory:
      600
    • Nautical compass (Inv. 600)

Large, incomplete English nautical compass with two sights for each leg and an arc graduated from 0° to 90°. Provenance: Robert Dudley bequest to the Medici collections.