The Marine room of the Peabody museum of Salem (1921)
Robinson, John, 1846-1925 comp, Peabody Museum of Salem · Salem, Mass., Peabody museum · leaf 186
re-runners of the quadrant,— the plumb quadrant and sinical quadrant, which were reallyone quarter of the circle, the plow, the cross-staff and, stillearlier, the astrolabe and the universal ring-dial. The collection of quadrants is quite large and very interesting.It includes both forms of the… … SPY-GLASSESFrom above: Dutch, old, 5 leet long, used at Nagasaki, Japan; from U. S. S. Guerrtere, 1815;from a British prize vessel taken by an American privateer, 1779; later forms, (left) used by Enos Briggs,builder of the frigate Essex, 1799; (right) used by Capt. Edward Weston on the clipper…
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