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Sextant

Catalogue number:
PH*328887

Inscriptions:
"Spencer Browning & Co. London" and "5861"

Dimensions:
radius 7.5 inches

Discussion:
This sextant came from Princeton University, and may have been purchased in 1877 for the new John C. Green Astronomical Observatory at that school. It has a brass frame. The silvered scale is graduated every 10 minutes from -5^o to +125^o and read by vernier with tangent screw and swinging magnifier to 10 seconds.

Further Information:

Spencer, Browning & Co.
Sextant