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Name in use since the fifteenth century (from the Latin stilus). Also style.
Description
Dry-point pen (not writing pen) for tracing "occult", that is, incised, lines on paper.
Bibliographical Resources
Scamozzi, Vincenzo, L’idea della architettura universale, Venezia, 1615, Parte I, Lib. I, Cap. XV, p. 49: “per tirar le linee occulte, ò morte con la puntina del stilo d’avorio”.
Images
Bibl.Dig. Pomodoro 1624.jpg
Giovanni Pomodoro, La geometria pratica, Roma, 1599, tav.I, particolare. |
Author of the entry: Filippo Camerota
