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    Image number: RS.8482
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    Dividers

    Date
    1697
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Dimensions
    length: 400mm
    Subject
    Content object
    Description
    A pair of brass dividers with steel tips, a 90 degree arch with scale inscribed, and four elaborately moulded wing nuts.

    Arch inscribed 'Sir Christopher Wren February 1697'.

    Sir Christopher Wren (1632–1723) British architect, mathematician, and astronomer, was a founding Fellow of the Royal Society, elected in 1660 and serving as its President between 1680-1682.
    Object history
    Presented to the Society by John Wolfe Barry FRS (1836-1918).
    Related fellows
    John Wolfe Barry (1836, British) , Civil engineer
    Associated place
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