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Nocturnal; boxwood; for use with Great or Little Bear constellation; shaped and pierced handle stamped and punched with 18 representations of stars; rotating disc with two projections; hour-scales; ring of figures for calculating difference between solar and lunar times; back of instrument: two rings of figures around windrose.
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