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Three hundred mathematical instruments, revealing 2000 years of scientific effort in many parts of the world, have been presented to Columbia University by David Eugene Smith, professor emeritus of mathematics. Rare astronomical devices used by early navigators, surveying and measuring instruments, calculating and drawing tools, as well as such curiosities as old prayer tally sticks and magicians’ compasses are included in the collection, which Professor Smith began 34 years says the “Christian Science Monitor.” Fifty sundials, dating from the seventeenth century, form one of the groups in the gift.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22832, 17 March 1936, Page 12
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