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Re: Circle of reflection
From: Wolfgang Köberer
Date: 2009 Mar 13, 22:58 +0100
From: Wolfgang Köberer
Date: 2009 Mar 13, 22:58 +0100
Andres, Alex was right in reporting that there is a Pistor & Martins reflecting circle in the "Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum" in Bremerhaven. This is a list of museums holding reflecting circles: Germany: Museum für Technik und Verkehr Berlin: 2 instruments Deutsches Museum München: 1 reflecting circle, 5 Borda circles (in the Geodesy exhibition) Schiffahrtsmuseum Brake/Unterweser: 1 Borda circle Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum Bremerhaven: 1 Pistor & Martins circle Schiffahrtsuseum Rostock: 1 Pistor & Martins circle UK museums, of course, have quite a few: National Maritime Museum: 12 circles (according to Hill/Paget-Tomlinson, Instruments of navigation; Willem Mörzer Bruijns upcoming book on sextants etc. should give more information) Whipple Museum Cambridge: 7 circles (according to Bennett's catalogue "Astronomy and Navigation"). See the excerpt from Bennett attached. France: Museé de la Marine: at least 3 circles (I take this from pictures that Jan Kalivoda sent to the list 5 years ago) United States: Peabody Museum: 5 circles (according to Brewington, Navigating instruments) Mystic eaport: 7 circles (according to their website http://mobius.mysticseaport.org/info.php?f=category1&type=browse&t=objects&s =INSTRUMENTS+-+CIRCLES Smithsonian: 6 circles (according to their website http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/navigation/type.cfm?typeid=5 Israel: National Maritime Museum Haifa: 1 circle (see picture attached) Closer to you: Spain: Museo Naval Madrid: the "Catálogo de instrumentos náuticos y científicos del Museo Naval" does not contain a circle. Portugal: Museu de Marinha: At least 3 circles. See the pictures I took last year attached. Finally I am attaching a short article on the Pistor & Martins circle. Regards Wolfgang P.S.: The quote in your post ("...es de muy poco uso...")from Fontecha refers to p. 191 (not 199) of that publication. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Navigation List archive: www.fer3.com/arc To post, email NavList@fer3.com To , email NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---