Nocturnal in boxwood and brass.

Publisher: Thomas COOPER

Date: England, Thomas Cooper, dated 1701

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 back engraved with a compass rose.

The grip is openwork with a heart inscribed "Both Bears" for the Big and Little Dipper.

England, circa 1700.

Height without the alidade : 21,5 cm - Height in total : 26 cm

Nocturnal (sometimes called a ""horologium nocturnum" - time instrument for the night) in boxwood and brass, the wheels held by a central nut presenting an annual calendar divided into months and days, an hour disc and a mobile alidade signed and dated "Thomas Cooper 1701", the back engraved with a compass rose.

The grip is openwork with a heart inscribed "Both Bears" for the Big and Little Dipper.

$ 15,000.00

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