Gunner’s Gauge

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|nome= Nome in uso fin dal Rinascimento (in latino "baculus Bombardicus") con riferimento al [[bacolo]].
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Name in use since the Renaissance (in Latin "baculus Bombardicus") with reference to the [[Cross-Staff |cross-staff]].
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|descrizione= Con la diffusione delle armi da fuoco si registra la messa a punto di speciali regoli o "bacoli" destinati agli artiglieri. Si tratta di sottili bacchette, di legno o di ottone, spesso con custodia, sulle quali si trovano incise varie scale di misura per la preparazione delle artiglierie: divisioni in parti uguali per misurare calibri e profondità delle bocche da fuoco, e scale dei metalli (ferro, piombo, pietra) per calcolare la quantità di polvere da sparo in relazione al materiale delle palle da cannone.
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With the spread of firearms, special rules or cross-staffs designed for gunners were developed. They were slender sticks, made of wood or brass, often with a case, engraved with various scales of measurement for the preparation of artillery: divisions into equal parts for measuring the calibers and depths of cannon mouths, and scales of metals (iron, lead, stone) for calculating the quantity of gunpowder needed for cannonballs made of different materials.  
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[http://brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/museum/esim.asp?c=401121 Florence, Museo Galileo. Institute and Museum of the History of Science, inv. 695.] <br />  
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- Museo Galileo, Institute and Museum of the History of Science, Florence <br>
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[http://brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/museum/esim.asp?c=401120 Florence, Museo Galileo. Institute and Museum of the History of Science, inv. 699.] <br />  
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[http://catalogue.museogalileo.it/object/GunnersCaliper_n01.html Florence, Museo Galileo. Institute and Museum of the History of Science, inv. 695.] <br />  
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[http://brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/museum/esim.asp?c=401119 Florence, Museo Galileo. Institute and Museum of the History of Science, inv. 631.] <br />  
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[http://catalogue.museogalileo.it/object/GunnersCaliper.html Florence, Museo Galileo. Institute and Museum of the History of Science, inv. 699.] <br />  
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[http://brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/museum/esim.asp?c=401119 Florence, Museo Galileo. Institute and Museum of the History of Science, inv. 632.] <br />  
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[http://catalogue.museogalileo.it/object/Ramrods.html Florence, Museo Galileo. Institute and Museum of the History of Science, inv. 631.] <br />  
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[http://brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/museum/esim.asp?c=401129 Florence, Museo Galileo. Institute and Museum of the History of Science, inv. 620.] <br />  
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[http://catalogue.museogalileo.it/object/Ramrods.html Florence, Museo Galileo. Institute and Museum of the History of Science, inv. 632.] <br />  
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[http://brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/museum/esim.asp?c=401088 Florence, Museo Galileo. Institute and Museum of the History of Science, inv. 694.] <br />
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[http://catalogue.museogalileo.it/object/CaseForMilitaryInstruments.html Florence, Museo Galileo. Institute and Museum of the History of Science, inv. 620.] <br />  
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[http://brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/museum/esim.asp?c=401085 Florence, Museo Galileo. Institute and Museum of the History of Science, inv. 657.] <br />
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[http://catalogue.museogalileo.it/object/MeasuringRule.html Florence, Museo Galileo. Institute and Museum of the History of Science, inv. 694.] <br />
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[http://brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/museum/esim.asp?c=401086 Florence, Museo Galileo. Institute and Museum of the History of Science, inv. 658.] <br />
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[http://catalogue.museogalileo.it/object/MilitaryRule.html Florence, Museo Galileo. Institute and Museum of the History of Science, inv. 657.] <br />
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[http://catalogue.museogalileo.it/object/MilitaryRule_n01.html Florence, Museo Galileo. Institute and Museum of the History of Science, inv. 658.] <br />
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- Museum of the History of Science, Oxford <br>
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[http://emu.mhs.ox.ac.uk/Display.php?irn=1181&QueryPage Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, inv. 53100]<br>
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[http://emu.mhs.ox.ac.uk/Display.php?irn=1305&QueryPage Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, inv. 44994]<br>
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[http://emu.mhs.ox.ac.uk/Display.php?irn=1300&QueryPage Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, inv. 41591]<br>
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[http://emu.mhs.ox.ac.uk/Display.php?irn=1215&QueryPage Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, inv. 37342]<br>
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[http://emu.mhs.ox.ac.uk/Display.php?irn=1302&QueryPage Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, inv. 34455]<br>
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http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/geometry/cat4.htm (English)<br>
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http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/epact/catalogue.php?ENumber=93623 (English)
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Image: 1560_3283_0923-004.jpg|Levinius Hulsius, ''Tractatus primus[-tertius] instrumentorum mechanicorum Leuini Hulsii...'', Francofurti ad Moenum, ex Officina typogr. Wolfgangi Richteri, 1605, p.5
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Image: 1560_3283_0923-005.jpg|Levinius Hulsius, ''Tractatus primus[-tertius] instrumentorum mechanicorum Leuini Hulsii...'', Francofurti ad Moenum, ex Officina typogr. Wolfgangi Richteri, 1605, p.6
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Image: 1560_3283_0923-005.jpg | Levinius Hulsius, ''Tractatus primus[-tertius] instrumentorum mechanicorum Leuini Hulsii...'', Francofurti ad Moenum, ex Officina typogr. Wolfgangi Richteri, 1605, p.6
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Image: 1560_3283_0923-006.jpg|Levinius Hulsius, ''Tractatus primus[-tertius] instrumentorum mechanicorum Leuini Hulsii...'', Francofurti ad Moenum, ex Officina typogr. Wolfgangi Richteri, 1605, p.13
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Image: 1560_3283_0923-006.jpg | Levinius Hulsius, ''Tractatus primus[-tertius] instrumentorum mechanicorum Leuini Hulsii...'', Francofurti ad Moenum, ex Officina typogr. Wolfgangi Richteri, 1605, p.13
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Current revision as of 12:16, 7 September 2010

Name in use since the Renaissance (in Latin "baculus Bombardicus") with reference to the cross-staff.


Contents

Historic Period

16th C.

Description

With the spread of firearms, special rules or cross-staffs designed for gunners were developed. They were slender sticks, made of wood or brass, often with a case, engraved with various scales of measurement for the preparation of artillery: divisions into equal parts for measuring the calibers and depths of cannon mouths, and scales of metals (iron, lead, stone) for calculating the quantity of gunpowder needed for cannonballs made of different materials.


Existing Instruments

- Museo Galileo, Institute and Museum of the History of Science, Florence
Florence, Museo Galileo. Institute and Museum of the History of Science, inv. 695.
Florence, Museo Galileo. Institute and Museum of the History of Science, inv. 699.
Florence, Museo Galileo. Institute and Museum of the History of Science, inv. 631.
Florence, Museo Galileo. Institute and Museum of the History of Science, inv. 632.
Florence, Museo Galileo. Institute and Museum of the History of Science, inv. 620.
Florence, Museo Galileo. Institute and Museum of the History of Science, inv. 694.
Florence, Museo Galileo. Institute and Museum of the History of Science, inv. 657.
Florence, Museo Galileo. Institute and Museum of the History of Science, inv. 658.


- Museum of the History of Science, Oxford
Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, inv. 53100
Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, inv. 44994
Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, inv. 41591
Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, inv. 37342
Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, inv. 34455

Links (External)

http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/geometry/cat4.htm (English)
http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/epact/catalogue.php?ENumber=93623 (English)

Images

Levinius Hulsius, Tractatus primus[-tertius] instrumentorum mechanicorum Leuini Hulsii..., Francofurti ad Moenum, ex Officina typogr. Wolfgangi Richteri, 1605, p.5

Levinius Hulsius, Tractatus primus[-tertius] instrumentorum mechanicorum Leuini Hulsii..., Francofurti ad Moenum, ex Officina typogr. Wolfgangi Richteri, 1605, p.6

Levinius Hulsius, Tractatus primus[-tertius] instrumentorum mechanicorum Leuini Hulsii..., Francofurti ad Moenum, ex Officina typogr. Wolfgangi Richteri, 1605, p.13

Author of the entry: Filippo Camerota

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