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Sextant

Catalogue number:
PH*328486

Inscriptions:
"J. & A. Molteni B Paris"

Dimensions:
radius 7.25 inches

Discussion:
The Molteni family was in business in Paris from 1782 to about 1900, making a wide variety of mathematical instruments. This sextant belonged to Weston College in Weston, Massachusetts, and probably dates from the third quarter of the 19th century. It has a brass frame. The silvered scale is graduated every 10 minutes from -5^o to +168^o and read by vernier with tangent screw and magnifier to 10 seconds of arc.

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