Navicula de Venetiis
Illustration — Navicula de Venetiis on display at Musée d'histoire des sciences de la Ville de Genève. A navicula de Venetiis or "little ship of Venice" was an altitude dial used to tell time and which was shaped like a little ship. The cursor (with a plumb line attached) was slid up/down the mast to the correct latitude.
Navicula de Venetiis
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Illustration — Navicula de Venetiis on display at Musée d'histoire des sciences de la Ville de Genève. A navicula de Venetiis or "little ship of Venice" was an altitude dial used to tell time and which was shaped like a little ship. The cursor (with a plumb line attached) was slid up/down the mast to the correct latitude.
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The user then sighted the sun through the pair of sighting holes at either end of the "ship's deck". The plumb line then marked what hour of the day it was. Some naviculas had additional information inscribed, such as the latitude of some common English towns, some zodiac signs, etc.
Navicula de Venetiis is classified as a sundial.
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Navicula de Venetiis: une acquisition prestigieuse du Musée d'histoire des sciences (1995) — DataCite (Musée d'art et d'histoire de Genève)
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- “Navicula de Venetiis”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- Gemeinsame Normdatei 4807883-9, Navicula de Venetiis.
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MARGARIDA ARCHINARD, La «Navicula de Venetiis» du Musée d'Histoire des Sciences de Genève, in «Musées de Genève», 334, Avril 1995, pp
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Gemeinsame Normdatei 4807883-9, Navicula de Venetiis.Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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