Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon, Dresden

Among its holdings, the Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon in Dresden owns an excellent collection of early modern mathematical instruments whose scales were based on values of specific weights, including sectors and gunner's rods.

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

Inventory list of instruments

Reduction compass, inventory number: MPS A I 11

French sector, inventory number: MPS A I 26

French sector, inventory number: MPS A I 32

Sector, inventory number: MPS A I 33

Sector, inventory number: MPS A I 44

Sector, inventory number: MPS A I 44a

French sector, inventory number: MPS A I 97

French sector, inventory number: MPS A I 110

Sector, inventory number: MPS A I 115

Sector/proportional compass, inventory number: MPS A I 125

French sector, inventory number: MPS A I 126

Sector, inventory number: MPS A I 132

Gunner's gauge scale, inventory number: MPS B I 13

Gunner's gauge scale, inventory number: MPS B I 14

Gunner's gauge scale, inventory number: MPS B I 212

Measuring rod, inventory number: MPS B I 229

Gunner's level, inventory number: MPS C V 7

Gunner's sight and gauge scale, inventory number: MPS C V 39

"Pendelrichtsextant" with gunner's gauge scale, inventory number: MPS C V 40

French sector, Uninventoried