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Compass.
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- Maker :
- ANONYMOUS
- Place :
- Unknown
- Date :
- c. 1890-1900
- Color :
- Uncoloured
- Height mm.:
- 160
- Width mm.:
- 160
- Condition :
- Height of the box: 10 cm
- Bibliography :
- -
- Seller's ref. :
- 29036
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A sloop compass in the original wooden box with lit. The compass with floating rose (Cardan system). Slung in gimbals, the east point is decorated and graduated in half points and decorated N & E points.
The cardan suspension system, also called a gimbal, is a pivotal support that allows the rotation of an object about a single axis. If simultaneously assembled three rings, one on another by orthogonal rotation axes, an object placed inside the third ring always remains horizontal, regardless of the engaged turns of the other two rings.
The application of this gimbal system navigation was proverbial, since until that moment when, for reasons of bad weather, the ship tends to heel or continuously up by the effect of waves, a traditional compass was useless, making it virtually impossible navigation.
The gimbal system allowed the compass to remain horizontal, therefore, a continuing role, regardless of the boat's position.The gimbal compasses are still used today in both marine and aviation.
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Currus Veliferi Illmi. Pr. Mauritii Nassouvii. (Prince Maurits' sailing-carriage, designed by Simon Stevin. )
Prince Maurits' sailing carriages had been designed by Simon Stevin. The Prince, always accessible to new inventions of his old instructor, could not please the foreign ambassadors more than by inviting them for a ride in his carriage. The big sailing-carriage could seat 28 persons and could reach a speed of seven miles per hour. Land sailing : The Chinese had "wind-driven carriages" since the 6th century AD, during the Liang Dynasty, and eventually mounted masts and sails on large wheelbarrows....
$1.800
Maker : BLAEU, J.
Place : Amsterdam
Date : 1649
Residence of A.S. Doane Doanesburg Putnam Co. N.Y. - N. L. Thompsons's lake Mahopac - The Gregory House lake Mahopac Putnam Co N. Y. Lewis H. Gregory Proprietor.
Three heliographic prints on one sheet : "Residence of A.S. Doane Doanesburg Putnam Co. N.Y. (120x150mm.) / N. L. Thompsons's lake Mahopac (120 x 160mm.) / The Gregory House lake Mahopac Putnam Co N. Y. Lewis H. Gregory Proprietor. (210 x 320mm.)." After design by R.K.Sneden (120 x 160mm.).From Beer's famous county atlas "Atlas of New York and vicinity", "a documentary record of nineteenth century life and delightful specimens of American folk art. F. W. Beers, along with other members of his fa...
$90
Maker : DE BEERS, F.W.
Place : New York,1867
Date : 1867
Brabantia.
A lovely miniature map of the Duchy of Brabant, published by Petrus Bertius, in Amsterdam at the beginning of the seventeenth century. There is a nice, small strap-work title, a little stippled sea, and the map depicts local topography and towns including Mechelen, Breda, Cleve, Maestricht, Cologne, Brussels and Namur. This example is from the Tabularum Geographicarum Contractarum. Bertius (1565-1629) was a Flemish cartographer, theologian, historian and geographer. Although he published much in...
$100
Maker : LANGENES, B. / BERTIUS, P.
Place : Amsterdam, 1606
Date : 1606
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[Diego de Almagro is killed.]
Almagro returned to Cuzco, disillusioned and embittered from his long and fruitless journey south into Chile, where he had been searching for further wealth. This led to a split in the control of Peru between the Pizarrists, who held the coastal regions, and the Almagrists who held the Cordillera. Further quarreling culminated in a battle just outside Cuzco in 1538, known as Las Salinas, which the Pizarrists eventually won. Almagro was subsequently garrotted and his captain, Orgóñez, beheaded....
$80
Maker : GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Place : Frankfurt, M.Merian
Date : 1633
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