Sextant
date: label: date made
content: 19th century
name: label: maker
content: Rosell, Jose
notes: label: Description
content: Sextant with an ebony frame and reinforced brass index arm. The ivory scale is graduated every 20 minutes from -5° to +140° and read by vernier with tangent screw to 30 seconds of arc. It belonged to the University of Alabama, and probably dates from the mid-nineteenth century. A trade card in the box reads: "CASA FUNDADA EN 1837 PRECIO FIJO GRAN ESTABLECIMIENTO DE Instrumentos de D. JOSÉ ROSELL BARCELONA Plaza de Palacio, Numero, 13." The inscription on the instrument reads "JOSÉ ROSELL BARCELONA."
label: Description
content: José Rosell began in business in Barcelona in 1837, offering a wide variety of mathematical, optical, and philosophical instruments. In 1905 the shop was known as Antigua Casa Rosell.
label: Description
content: Ref: José Rosell, <i>Prospecto del Nuevo y Grandioso Establecimento de Instrumentos Científicos</i> (Barcelona, n.d.).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Spain: Catalonia, Barcelona
topic: label: Subject
content: Spanish
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Measuring & Mapping
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: University of Alabama
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.325958
label: catalog number
content: 325958
label: accession number
content: 317854
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sextant
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: sextant radius: 7 9/16 in; 19.177 cm
label: Measurements
content: box: 12.7 cm x 33 cm x 29.2 cm; 5 in x 13 in x 11 1/2 in
label: Measurements
content: overall in box: 4 7/8 in x 11 3/4 in x 12 3/4 in; 12.3825 cm x 29.845 cm x 32.385 cm