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|nome= Nome in uso fin dal XVI secolo per definire la forma più semplice di compasso.
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Name used since the sixteenth century to define the simplest type of compass.
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|descrizione= Compasso a due punte, detto anche di divisione, utilizzato per il riporto delle misure e la costruzione dei poligoni.
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Two-point compass, also called divider, utilized for transferring measurements and constructing polygons.
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Image: File.jpg | Giovanni Pomodoro, ''La geometria pratica'', Roma, 1599, tav.I, particolare.
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Name used since the sixteenth century to define the simplest type of compass.


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Description

Two-point compass, also called divider, utilized for transferring measurements and constructing polygons.


Bibliographical Resources

Pomodoro, Giovanni. Geometria prattica tratta dagl'Elementi d'Euclide ed altri Auttori da Giovanni Pomo doro Venetiano Mathematico eccellentissimo descritta et dichiarata da Giovanni Scala Mathematico, Roma, Stefano de' Paulini, 1599.


Existing Instruments

Florence, Museo Galileo. Institute and Museum of the History of Science, inv. 1486 bis.
Florence, Museo Galileo. Institute and Museum of the History of Science, inv. 1000.
Florence, Museo Galileo. Institute and Museum of the History of Science, inv. 2515.


Images


Author of the entry: Filippo Camerota

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