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{{Template invention |nome= Name currently used to distinguish this instrument from the simpler [[Surveying Compass | surveying compass]]. |descrizione= Instrument probably derived from the [[polymeter]], and even earlier from the [[torquetum]]. In the version of Walther Riff (1547, III), a vertical goniometric disk divided around the edge into 360° and equipped with diopter and shadow square is mounted on a revolving rod at the centre of a horizontal goniometric circle (see [[compass]]). In a variant by Cosimo Bartoli (1564, IV), the rod is attached at right angles above the diopter of the horizontal circle and has an opening at the base similar to that of Regiomontanus’s torquetum (1544). While the horizontal circle serves to measure the position angles, the vertical one is used to measure distances in order to perform surveying from a single station. The diopter of the vertical circle is also essential when the station is situated on a height from which places could not be sighted with the diopter of the horizontal one. |inventore= Walther Riff |data= 1547 |componenti= |riferimentibibliografici= Bartoli, Cosimo. ''Del modo di misurare le distantie…'',ms., 1559, Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Ms. Plut. 30.27.<br /> Bartoli, Cosimo. ''Del modo di misurare le distantie, le superficie, i corpi, le piante, le provincie, le prospettive, et tutte le altre cose terrene, che possono occorrere a gli uomini, secondo le vere regole d'Euclide, et de gli altri più lodati scrittori''. In Venetia, per Francesco Franceschi Sanese, 1564, IV.<br /> Regiomontanus, Johannes. ''Scripta clarissimi mathematici M. Ioannis Regiomontani, De torqueto, astrolabio armillari, regula magna Ptolemaica, baculoque astronomico, et observationibus cometarum, aucta necessariis Ioannis Schoneri Carolostadii additionibus, item Ioannis de Monteregio et Bernardi Waltheri observationes motuum solis, ac stellarum tam fixarum, cumque erraticarum, item libellus Georgii Purbachii de Quadrato geometrico…'', Norimbergae, apud Ioannem Montanum & Ulricum Neuber, 1544. Ryff, Walther. ''Der furnembsten, notwendigsten, der gantzen Architectur angehörigen Mathematischen und Mechanischen künst eygentlicher Bericht und vast klare, verstendliche unterrichtung'', Nürnberg, Johan Petreius, 1547, III.<br /> |strumentiesistenti= |link= |immagini= <gallery widths=300 heights=480 perrow=3> Image: 8529_3201_2707-022.jpg|Cosimo Bartoli, ''Del modo di misurare le distantie, le superficie, i corpi, le piante, le prouincie, le prospettiue & tutte le altre cose terrene che possono occorrere a gli huomini secondo le uere regole d'Euclide & de gli altri piu lodati scrittori'', Venezia, Francesco Franceschi, 1564, p. 98r </gallery> |autore_scheda= Filippo Camerota |categoria_1= Measuring instruments |categoria_2= |categoria_3= |categoria_4= |categoria_5= |categoria_6= |categoria_7= |categoria_8= |categoria_9= |categoria_10= |italiano= Bussola verticale }}

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