Deutsches Museum, München

The Deutsches Museum in Munich holds a first-rate collection of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century sectors from Germany, the Low Countries, England and France. Several of these mathmeatical instruments had scales based on values of specific weights.

Here is a preliminary inventory list of relevant instruments, with links to further information (linked pages will soon provide more data, including detailed analyses of scales)

 

Partial Inventory list of instruments

Galileian type and sectors of the German-speaking area in the 17. and 18 century

Galileian sector, inventory number: DMM 5810

Sector by H. Stolle, inventory number: DMM 1484

Sector, inventory number: DMM 1483

Sector, inventory number: DMM 73861

Sector with ten divisions, inventory number: DMM 72881

Sector, inventory number: DMM 49052

Sector, inventory number: DMM 37627

Sector by J P Bischoff, inventory number: DMM 26146

Sector, inventory number: DMM 34932

Sector, inventory number: DMM 5010

Silver sector by Georg Drechslers, inventory number: DMM 65490T021

Wood sector by Brander, inventory number: DMM 1510

 

French sectors of the 17. - 19. century

Sector by N. Bion, inventory number: DMM 63898

Sector by N. Bion, inventory number: DMM 62678

Sector by N. Bion, inventory number: DMM 40082

Sector by M. Butterfield, inventory number: DMM 38939

Sector by M. Butterfield, inventory number: DMM 18760

Sector by M. Butterfield, inventory number: DMM 49584

Sector by M. Butterfield, inventory number: DMM 33750T002

Sector by S. Choizy, inventory number: DMM 29335

Sector by Clerget, inventory number: DMM 39090T001

Sector by Macquart, inventory number: DMM 37626

Sector by P. Le Maire, inventory number: DMM 63905

Sector, inventory number: DMM 68220T015

Sector by J. Baradelle, inventory number: DMM 26953

Sector by Lasnier, inventory number: DMM 56880

Sector by Meurand, inventory number: DMM 67366

Sector by V. J. L. Chevalier, inventory number: DMM 15991

Sector by Lenoir, inventory number: DMM 34926

Sector, inventory number: DMM 12656

Sector, inventory number: DMM 53733

Sector, inventory number: DMM 62247

Sector, inventory number: DMM 45965

 

Deutsches Museum, München