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|nome= ''Compasso architettonico''. Nome coniato nell'Inghilterra del '700 come traduzione di [[archisesto]].<br/>
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|nome= Architectonic compass. Name coined in eighteenth-century Britain in as translation of [["Archisesto" (Architectonic Sector)]].
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|inventore= Ottavio Revese Bruti (XVI-XVII sec.)
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|descrizione= [[Compasso di proporzione]] per il disegno degli ordini architettonci diffuso in Inghilterra sul modello dell'[[archisesto]] di Ottavio Revese Bruti.
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|descrizione= [[Proportional compasses]] for drawing the architectural orders widely used in Britain, modelled after the [["Archisesto" (Architectonic Sector)]] of Ottavio Revese Bruti.  
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Wittkover, Rudolf. ''Palladio and English Palladianism''. Thames and Hudson, London, 1974.<br />
Wittkover, Rudolf. ''Palladio and English Palladianism''. Thames and Hudson, London, 1974.<br />
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|strumentiesistenti= [http://emu.mhs.ox.ac.uk/Display.php?irn=1193 Oxford, Museum of the History of Science, inv. 55213.]<br />
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[http://emu.mhs.ox.ac.uk/Display.php?irn=1193 Oxford, Museum of the History of Science, inv. 55213.]<br />
[http://emu.mhs.ox.ac.uk/Display.php?irn=15806 Oxford, Museum of the History of Science, inv. 76416.]<br />
[http://emu.mhs.ox.ac.uk/Display.php?irn=15806 Oxford, Museum of the History of Science, inv. 76416.]<br />
[http://emu.mhs.ox.ac.uk/Display.php?irn=1182 Oxford, Museum of the History of Science, inv. 40175.]<br />
[http://emu.mhs.ox.ac.uk/Display.php?irn=1182 Oxford, Museum of the History of Science, inv. 40175.]<br />

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Architectonic compass. Name coined in eighteenth-century Britain in as translation of "Archisesto" (Architectonic Sector).

Contents

Inventor

Ottavio Revese Bruti (XVI-XVII sec.)


Historic Period

1627


Description

Proportional compasses for drawing the architectural orders widely used in Britain, modelled after the "Archisesto" (Architectonic Sector) of Ottavio Revese Bruti.


Bibliographical Resources

Johnston, Stephen. Science, satire and the architectonic sector. XXV Symposium of the Scientific Instrument Commission, Krakow 2006.

Kirby, Joshua. The Description and Use of a New Instrument called an Architectonic Sector.... London, 1761.

Malie, Thomas. A New and Accurate Method of Delineating all the Parts of the Different Orders in Architecture. London, 1737.

Revese Bruti, Ottavio. Archisesto per formar con facilita li cinque ordini d'architettura; con altri particolari intorno la medesima professione. Vicenza, 1627.

Wittkover, Rudolf. Palladio and English Palladianism. Thames and Hudson, London, 1974.


Existing Instruments

Oxford, Museum of the History of Science, inv. 55213.
Oxford, Museum of the History of Science, inv. 76416.
Oxford, Museum of the History of Science, inv. 40175.


Images


Author of the entry: Filippo Camerota

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