A Rare Inclining meridian finder and Sundial Invented by Julien Leroy
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A rare sundial invented by Julien Le Roy signed Jacques Lemaire
Dimensions
25 Cm X 18 Cm
Circa
1746
Country of manufacture
France
Description
A rare sundial invented by Julien Le Roy signed by Jacques Lemaire dated 1746.
Julien Le Roy was Director of the French Société des Arts in the Early Eighteenth century
He work closely with Jacques Lemaire.
The sundial is engraved with the latitudes of twenty Europeans cities.
Same model in The Greenwich Museum and in The Arts et Métiers Museum.
See Daumas Scientific instruments of the 17Th and 18 Th Centuries and their makers.
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