Shadows Square

From Inventions

Name in use since the sixteenth century to indicate the shadow square scale (in Latin scalam altimetram).

Description

Synonymous with geometrical square and shadow square.

---

Bibliographical Resources

Cataneo, Pietro, L’architettura. Libri otto, Venezia, 1567, rist. anast., Forni, Sala Bolognese, 1982, p. 196

---

Images

Francesco Giuntini. La sfera del mondo di m. Francesco Giuntini ..., Lione, 1582, p. 137.

---

Author of the entry: Filippo Camerota