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about 1770

Overall: 6 5/16 × 8 1/4 × 4 1/2 in. (16 × 21 × 11.5 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Allen King Collection of Scientific Instruments, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College

2002.1.35211

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

1600-1800

Object Name

Scientific Instrument

Research Area

Scientific Instrument

Scientific Instrument: Surveying

Not on view

Publication History

David Pantalony, Richard L. Kremer, Francis J. Manasek, Study, Measure, Experiment: Stories of Scientific Instruments at Dartmouth College, Norwich, Vermont: Terra Nova Press, 2005, p. 21, ill.

Provenance

Transferred from the Thayer School, Department of Graphics and Engineering, Dartmouth College to the Dartmouth College Museum, June 23, 1950; catalogued into the Allen King Collection of Scientific Instruments, 2002.

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