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Description: Compast oder Sonnen Ur (Compass or sundial)

TitleCompast oder Sonnen Ur (Compass or sundial)

Creator nameHartmann, GeorgUnknown

Creator nationality/cultureGerman

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Creation date1551

Object typePrint

MaterialsWoodcut

DimensionsBlock: 12.6 × 15.91 in. (32 × 40.4 cm); sheet: 13.23 × 16.38 in. (33.6 × 41.6 cm)

LocationStaatliche Museen zu Berlin

Accession numberInv. 235-1885

SubjectsSundials in artCompass in artAstronomical instruments

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Printed Instruments

Suzanne K. Schmidt

Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe

~~Scientific instruments such as sundials, globes, and astrolabes are commonly known in examples made of such durable materials as wood, brass, and ivory. Yet in the sixteenth century they were also manufactured from printed paper. Component parts were printed on sheets that were designed to be scored, folded, pierced, cut, and pasted...

Author

Suzanne K. Schmidt

PublisherHarvard Art Museums

Related print edition pages: pp.267-315

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00097.013

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-16367&redirecttoanchor=22631

Chapter subject tags:Prints--TechniqueEurope--Intellectual life--16th centuryPrints, RenaissancePrints, European--16th centuryArt and science--Europe--History--16th centuryAstrology in art--Europe--History--16th century

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