MODEL
Specifications
COMMENTS &
DIMENSIONS {in centimeters}
Cast in bronze after a copy of the artifact
found on the wreck of the “BATAVIA”
a Dutch ship which was wrecked off the West
Australian Coast in the 17th Cent.
Was used for finding latitude by taking
noon observations of the sun and some stars
at night.
Copied from drawings supplied by the Fremantle
Museum W.A.
Diameter 25 cms 1.5 cm thick
Weight 3 kg
The first copy I made was for the Power
House Museum Sydney
Comes in a wooden box
See “Observer and Observed “
Charles Pickett and Nick Lomb
Power House publishing Sydney, Australia
AVAILABLE
EXTRAS
Gold plate
Or Gold gilt see above
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