Description
UNKNOWN PUBLISHER (18th/19th Century) “SEXTANTS ASTRONOMICUS”. Colored engraving shows a celestial measuring instrument on a wood base mounted on a stepped platform. The title “Sextants Astronomicus Prout Altitudinibus Infervit”. Signed in the plate “P. V.”. Believed to be an instrument invented by Tycho Brahe in the 16th Century. Housed in...