Stylus

From Inventions

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.

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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”.

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Images

Bibl.Dig. Pomodoro 1624.jpg Giovanni Pomodoro, La geometria pratica, Roma, 1599, tav.I, particolare.

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Author of the entry: Filippo Camerota