Gunner's Level
date: label: date made
content: 1616
notes: label: Description
content: Gunner’s levels came into use in in the sixteenth century, along with the increased use of heavy artillery that could be adjusted for elevation. Intricate and delicate examples were presumably used for display rather than service on the battlefield. The “C.T.D.E.M.1616” inscription on this example refers to Christoph Trechsler, a mathematical instrument maker in Dresden. Objects from his hand date from 1572 to 1624.
label: Description
content: Ref: Ernst Zinner, <i>Deutsche und niederlandische astronomische Instrumente des 11-18. Jahrhunderts</i> (Munchen, 1956), pp. 547-551.
label: Description
content: John R. Millburn, "Gunnery Instruments and their Makers in the Eighteenth Century," <i>Journal of the Ordnance Society</i> 7 (1995): 27-44.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.326982
label: catalog number
content: 326982
label: accession number
content: 268219
objectType: label: Object Name
content: artillery level
label: Object Name
content: Gunner's Level
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 3/4 in x 1 5/8 in x 3/4 in; 4.445 cm x 4.1275 cm x 1.905 cm