Dear All, I am searching for the earliest use of the name, Capuchin dial, to describe a particular form of rectilinear dial.
The class of altitude /rectilinear dials also includes the Regiomontanus dial and navicula. The earliest published projection of the Capuchin dial I know is in the works of Sebastian Munster in the 1530s, but he does not call it by that name. At some point it came to be known by the Capuchin name because when turned upside down the project resembles the hood of a Capuchin monk. So when before 1800 did this naming convention happen? Sara Sara J. Schechner Altazimuth Arts 42°36'N 71° 22'W West Newton, MA 02465 http://www.altazimutharts.com/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v1/url?u=http://www.altazimutharts.com/&k=AjZjj3dyY74kKL92lieHqQ%3D%3D%0A&r=Y3uaNkd%2BN%2BBEMo7BAxbEQqOqpMk6uxYnCJsB4uxugzo%3D%0A&m=Ti1oQOLKwbdeBp0MOcYibsxY4Lg058dCGKYBaRLSNUY%3D%0A&s=2f04b2f3647abf5da1ada6decaf1b455ea2d0ead01efe881489e14a7d1adb139> Sara J. Schechner, Ph.D. David P. Wheatland Curator of the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments Department of the History of Science, Harvard University Science Center 251c, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 Tel: 617-496-9542 | Fax: 617-496-5932 | sche...@fas.harvard.edu<mailto:sche...@fas.harvard.edu> http://scholar.harvard.edu/saraschechner http://chsi.harvard.edu/
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