Planispheric Compasses

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Contents 1 Inventor 2 Historic Period 3 Description 4 Bibliographical Resources 5 Images

Inventor

Guidobaldo del Monte (1545-1607)

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Historic Period

1579

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Description

Instrument designed by Guidobaldo del Monte to facilitate drawing the curves in universal planispheres. Formed of two hinged arms fixed to a rectilinear base, the instrument could be used to trace any arc of a circumference passing through three given points

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Bibliographical Resources

Dal Monte, Guidobaldo, Guidiubaldi e Marchionibus Montis Planisphaeriorum universalium theorica, Pisauri, apud Hieronymum Concordiam, 1579.

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Images

Guidobaldo Dal Monte, Planisphaeriorum universalium theorica, Pesaro 1579, p. 54.

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Author of the entry: Filippo Camerota