Portable Equatorial
An adjustable brass sundial with a compass needle showed the hour wherever you set it up and pointed it north.
- Date
- 1748
- Maker
- Jacob Emanuel Laminit, German, 1719–1760
- Place
- Augsburg, Germany
- Materials
- Gilt and engraved brass, cut and blued steel, glass
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 2 x 6.4 x 6 cm (13/16 x 2 1/2 x 2 3/8 in.)
- Museum
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Credit line
- Gift of the Estate of James Hazen Hyde
Scrolled square frame with animal allegories of the Four Continents: camel, horse, lion and monkey; hinged quadrant, hour circle with gnomon and pendulum; in center, recessed circular box with compass needle, the face engraved with mermaid and triton; set on three adjustable legs.
The museum's own record (Smithsonian, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)
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