Sold for:
2,990 CHF
2,990 CHF
Italian, dated 1608. Fine and rare ivory and painted on wood oval diptych sundial with Julian and Gregorian epact tables. Notes A good, early and unusually shaped Italian sundial bearing rarely found epact tables on the back. Epact is the difference between the solar and the lunar year. Mea-sured in days. Literature. E. Dekker, "Epact Tables on Instruments: Their Defini-tion and Use", Annals of Science, 50 (1993), 303-24
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2004-04-24
