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Portable Equatorial
From the collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
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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.
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum’s own descriptionCredit linePortable Equatorial. 1748. Jacob Emanuel Laminit, German, 1719–1760. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Gift of the Estate of James Hazen Hyde. CC0.
