Shadows Square

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Name in use since the sixteenth century to indicate the shadow square scale (in Latin scalam altimetram).


Description

Synonymous with geometrical square and shadow square.


Bibliographical Resources

Cataneo, Pietro, L’architettura. Libri otto, Venezia, 1567, rist. anast., Forni, Sala Bolognese, 1982, p. 196



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Author of the entry: Filippo Camerota

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