D. van den Bosch

Decimal Scale

Rotterdam, 1821

Inscriptions

  • inscription, on the scale:Marine / Schaal van 1 Duim op den Duim / [scale] / D.V.D. BOSCH ƒ: ROT: [scale]
  • label, on the lid:858 former inventory label

Provenance

...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883

ObjectNumber: NG-MC-858

Entry

White metal scale of 100 mm, one to one, for drawing, in a wooden box lined with green cloth.

The Netherlands adopted the metric and decimal system in 1820.

Citation

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'D. van den Bosch, Decimal Scale, Rotterdam, 1821', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244672

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