Shadows Square
From Inventions
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
Images
 Francesco Giuntini. La sfera del mondo di m. Francesco Giuntini ..., Lione, 1582, p. 137. |
Author of the entry: Filippo Camerota
