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Re: Circle of reflection
From: Peter Fogg
Date: 2009 Mar 14, 10:16 +1100
From: Peter Fogg
Date: 2009 Mar 14, 10:16 +1100
Wolfgang
An addition to your list, from Museo La Specola :
http://www.pd.astro.it/museo/PagineInglesi/Instruments/i-borda.htm
Presents as an elegantly simplistic design, and possibly light enough to be practical to use ..?
You wrote:
"National Maritime Museum: 12 circles (according to Hill/Paget-Tomlinson,
Instruments of navigation; Willem Mörzer Bruijns upcoming book on sextants
etc. should give more information)"
The NMM site itself offers "more information", including images:
http://www.nmm.ac.uk/collections/search/lightbox.cfm/category/90452
http://www.nmm.ac.uk/collections/search/listResults.cfm?Name=Reflecting%20circle&SortBy=title
http://www.nmm.ac.uk/collections/explore/object.cfm?ID=ACO1342
etc ..
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An addition to your list, from Museo La Specola :
http://www.pd.astro.it/museo/PagineInglesi/Instruments/i-borda.htm
Presents as an elegantly simplistic design, and possibly light enough to be practical to use ..?
You wrote:
"National Maritime Museum: 12 circles (according to Hill/Paget-Tomlinson,
Instruments of navigation; Willem Mörzer Bruijns upcoming book on sextants
etc. should give more information)"
The NMM site itself offers "more information", including images:
http://www.nmm.ac.uk/collections/search/lightbox.cfm/category/90452
http://www.nmm.ac.uk/collections/search/listResults.cfm?Name=Reflecting%20circle&SortBy=title
http://www.nmm.ac.uk/collections/explore/object.cfm?ID=ACO1342
etc ..
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