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Minute sundial

Description

Minute sundials, which met the need for a more precise division of time, were created around 1700. Like equatorial clocks, this new type consisted essentially of a base plate equipped with a compass, to which a dial was attached that could be set to the desired latitude and thus parallel to the equatorial plane. A new addition was a mechanical device: the hour dial, which had a toothed edge, was equipped with an hour hand, which in turn was connected to a minute dial.

Object description

probably South Germany, 18th c.

Brass, partly silvered, engraved

Deposit Emanuel George Sarasin-Grossmann, Basel

Inv. 1982.528.

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