Artist/Maker
Young, Philip E.
Title
Positioning indicator
DateCirca 1950
Mediummixed media
Object number2019.54
Institutional Credit LineCourtesy of the New Bedford Whaling Museum
DescriptionCased home-made instrument believed to be for celestial navigation, and the mathematics of solving spherical triangle problem. Has vernier scales for latitude and longitude and minutes. The device was set with known or assumed values, and then the unknown values could be read. These included: Declination of the earth, local hour angle, latitude, altitude of the sun observed, and Azimuth. See object file for further details. Relates to 00.126.14On View
Not on view
Mèorzer Bruyns, W. F. J.,--1913-
Circa 1994
circa 1911
Date Unknown
