Planispheric Compasses
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Inventor
Guidobaldo del Monte (1545-1607)
Historic Period
1579
Description
Instrument designed by Guidobaldo del Monte to facilitate drawing the curves in universal planispheres. Formed of two hinged arms fixed to a rectilinear base, the instrument could be used to trace any arc of a circumference passing through three given points
Bibliographical Resources
Dal Monte, Guidobaldo, Guidiubaldi e Marchionibus Montis Planisphaeriorum universalium theorica, Pisauri, apud Hieronymum Concordiam, 1579.
Images
 Guidobaldo Dal Monte, Planisphaeriorum universalium theorica, Pesaro 1579, p. 54. |
Author of the entry: Filippo Camerota
