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LEWIS EVANS—ADDKESS : 
quadrant, about 1650 ; the German dial shaped like an ancient ship 
(Fig. 5), about 1480 ; the rectangular brass plate with a dial on one 
side and a calendar on the other, made by Schindler, 1716 ; and the 
French quadrant and nocturnal dial, dated 1543. The illustration 
Fig. 6.—Brass Quadrant made for Richard II. 
(Fig. 6) shows a brass quadrant, now in the British Museum, which 
was made for King Richard II in 1399. 
