SCIENCE PERPETUAL CALENDAR Henning Veit Balthasar Eeuwig D

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(PERPETUAL CALENDAR.) Henning, Veit Balthasar. Eeuwig Durenden Almanac. Calendar consisting of base and 3 volvelles, all hand-painted and varnished engravings mounted on pasteboard, affixed to wooden mount with maker's paper label on back. Approximately 345x204 mm; worn and fragile, with the wooden center plug (on which the volvelles rotate) loose. (Nuremberg: [Veit] Balthasar Henning), mid-18th century

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Wall calendar produced for the Dutch- or Flemish-speaking market, displaying the month, day of the week, date, zodiac sign, time of sunrise and sunset, length of day and night in hours, and important feast days for the month, in accordance with the volvelle settings. Cf. Zinner, Deutsche und niederländische astronomische Instrumente, page 372 (describing another version called Contoir Calendarium Perpetuum).