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- "Squadra Scamozziana" (Square by Vincenzo Scamozzi) |categoria_1= Measuring instruments |categoria_2= Drawing instrumentsRelevance: 4.5% - 1 KB (167 words) - 10:20, 27 July 2010
- "Proteo Militare" (Military proteus) |categoria_1= Measuring instruments |categoria_2= Drawing instrumentsRelevance: 4.0% - 3 KB (398 words) - 08:18, 8 September 2010
- Compasses …d a magnetic compass, a windrose, and optical sights for surveying and for drawing topographic maps. … | Nicolas Bion. ''Traité de la construction et des principaux usages des instruments de mathematique : avec les figures necessaires pour l'intelligence de ce T…Relevance: 3.0% - 6 KB (894 words) - 13:41, 7 September 2010
- Seste |categoria_1= Measuring instruments |categoria_2= Drawing instrumentsRelevance: 2.8% - 790 B (96 words) - 08:38, 26 July 2010
- Meridian Pointer |categoria_1= Measuring instruments |categoria_2= Drawing instrumentsRelevance: 2.5% - 1 KB (170 words) - 08:23, 10 September 2010
- Euclidean Compasses …ons of the compasses, Besson also describes its application to perspective drawing. |categoria_1= Measuring instrumentsRelevance: 2.4% - 2 KB (210 words) - 11:00, 13 November 2009
- "Sagma" (Mould) …erspective], p. 122: “Vignola learned the first principles of the art of Drawing in Bologna […] and thus it is unsurprising that he uses this term ''Sagm… |categoria_2= Drawing instrumentsRelevance: 2.4% - 2 KB (249 words) - 10:19, 27 July 2010
- Three-Point Compasses …d of three legs that can open freely to mark the vertices of any triangle. Drawings were reproduced on the same scale by means of triangulation. The compass … [http://catalogue.museogalileo.it/object/BoxMathematicalInstruments.html Florence, Museo Galileo. Institute and Museum of the History of Scien…Relevance: 2.4% - 2 KB (245 words) - 13:24, 8 July 2010
- Architectonic Sector |descrizione= [[Proportional Compasses | Proportional compasses]] for drawing the architectural orders widely used in Britain, modelled after the [["Arc… |categoria_1= Measuring instrumentsRelevance: 2.4% - 2 KB (236 words) - 11:14, 27 July 2010
- Double Compasses …s]] for measuring simple proportional ratios and for enlarging or reducing drawings. The instrument was formed of two intersecting legs with points on all en… |categoria_1= Measuring instrumentsRelevance: 2.3% - 2 KB (295 words) - 08:19, 26 July 2010
- "Lucerniere" (Candelstick) |categoria_2= Drawing instruments [[Category:Drawing instruments|Lucerniere]]Relevance: 2.3% - 2 KB (322 words) - 09:51, 27 July 2010
- "Telaro" (Frame) |categoria_2= Drawing instruments [[Category:Drawing instruments|Telaro]]Relevance: 2.3% - 2 KB (322 words) - 10:36, 27 July 2010
- "Treppiedetto" (Small Tripod) …awing of the object in plan and elevation. He first places the plan on the drawing board, in front of the perspectograph, and draws its perspective image, th… |categoria_2= Drawing instrumentsRelevance: 2.3% - 2 KB (337 words) - 11:51, 27 July 2010
- Cosmolabe …aphic charts. The author also describes how the instrument can be used for drawing a map of the sky in perspective and for the anamorphic deformation of imag… |categoria_1= Measuring instrumentsRelevance: 2.3% - 2 KB (319 words) - 16:17, 7 September 2010
- Protractor Generic name for instruments used to divide circles and measure plane angles. They can be circular, sem… |categoria_1= Measuring instrumentsRelevance: 2.3% - 3 KB (479 words) - 08:19, 10 September 2010
- Folding Square … Andreas Albrecht as an instrument specifically designed for architectural drawing. |categoria_1= Measuring instrumentsRelevance: 2.2% - 3 KB (348 words) - 12:07, 27 July 2010
- Gnomon …heric plate and two graduated vanes. It could also be used for perspective drawing. |categoria_1= Measuring instrumentsRelevance: 2.2% - 3 KB (357 words) - 14:03, 13 November 2009
- Reduction Compasses Instrument used exclusively to reproduce drawings in reduced or enlarged scale, having two legs intersecting at a fixed or … … | Nicolas Bion. ''Traité de la construction et des principaux usages des instruments de mathematique'', Paris, 1725, tav. 8.<br />Relevance: 2.2% - 3 KB (462 words) - 08:15, 10 September 2010
- Scenographical Instrument by Christopher Wren …n in 1663, by Henry Oldenburg, who kept it in his collection of scientific instruments. Another variant was published in 1719 by Grellier de Serviere … | Nicholas Bion, ''Traitè de la construction et des principaux usage des instruments de mathèmatique'', La Haye, 1723.Relevance: 2.2% - 3 KB (410 words) - 10:59, 27 July 2010
- Square …Latin ''ex-quadrata'', referring to ''norma''=square, i.e., instrument for drawing squares). In the Middle Ages it was also called ''orthogonium'' (from the … …e [[compass]], the square forms part of what Vincenzo Scamozzi deemed "the instruments most proper to the Architect". A wooden square for measuring heights (''or…Relevance: 2.2% - 3 KB (416 words) - 10:12, 8 September 2010
- "Archisesto" (Architectonic Sector) …f the special interest of King George III in architecture and mathematical instruments. In Britain the instrument was known as the [[Architectonic Sector |archit… [[Category:Measuring instruments|Archisesto]]Relevance: 2.2% - 3 KB (394 words) - 11:03, 7 September 2010
- Theodolite by Andreas Albrecht …ts together, the compass and the altimeter scale, were used in perspective drawing, through a complex procedure of converting linear measurements into angula… …eibung und Abriss eines sonderbaren nutzlich und nohtwendigen mechanischen Instruments: so auff ein Schreibtafel gerichtet welches zum Feldmessen zum Vestung auf…Relevance: 2.2% - 3 KB (392 words) - 11:46, 27 July 2010
- "Spiracolo" (Pinhole) |categoria_2= Drawing instruments [[Category:Drawing instruments|Spiracolo]]Relevance: 2.2% - 3 KB (476 words) - 11:35, 8 September 2010
- Vertical Staff |categoria_1= Measuring instruments |categoria_2= Drawing instrumentsRelevance: 2.2% - 3 KB (416 words) - 08:05, 27 July 2010
- Parallel Ruler … fratello'' [The compass of Sig. Fabrizio Mordente with other mathematical instruments described by his brother Gasparo], Antwerp 1584) and in the subsequent boo… [http://catalogue.museogalileo.it/object/BoxForMathematicalInstruments_n02.html Florence, Museo Galileo. Institute and Museum of the History of S…Relevance: 2.1% - 4 KB (602 words) - 08:58, 8 September 2010
- Perspectographs by George Adams …Cigoli’s perspectograph]], allowed the draughtsman to use direct contour drawing, by simply moving the pencil, in which turn activated the cursor (sight) t… …ny direction. In theoretical terms it would be possible to adopt a contour drawing, but perhaps more practical and accurate would be to use less sophisticate…Relevance: 2.1% - 5 KB (701 words) - 10:20, 22 June 2011
- Radius Astronomicus …l applications but in Chapter XIII he also mentions its use in perspective drawing: "Nonetheless, I will not discuss how some painter, standing at an elevate… |categoria_1= Measuring instrumentsRelevance: 2.1% - 4 KB (533 words) - 10:58, 27 July 2010
- Surveying Instrument by Baldassarre Lanci … Baldassarre Lanci, formerly part of the Medicean collection of scientific instruments and now at the Museo di Storia della Scienza di Firenze. It is a brass dis… …ia militare alla corte dei Medici", in "Musa musaei: studies on scientific instruments and collections in honour of Mara Miniati". A cura di Marco Beretta, Paolo…Relevance: 2.0% - 5 KB (718 words) - 16:20, 7 September 2010
- Horizon …enithal projection), the polar coordinates are transferred onto a sheet of drawing paper using two goniometers similar to the horizon, placed at the points t… …a manuscript by Giacomo Contarini, who specifies its use "to put things in drawings easily", by transferring measurements taken with the ''bossolo vivo'', th…Relevance: 2.0% - 4 KB (651 words) - 10:48, 19 July 2010
- Perspective Compasses …view" whose points were transferred proportionally to a second perspective drawing relevant to another viewing point. A similar compass with five different "… …ians] Girard Desargues describes the method for constructing a perspective drawing with the proportional compass but using only the arithmetic scale, that is…Relevance: 1.9% - 6 KB (851 words) - 11:54, 13 November 2009
- Camera Obscura …68), in a chapter illustrating mechanical instruments used for perspective drawing, from Albrecht Dürer’s famous “[[window]]” to the less well-known [… |categoria_2= Drawing instrumentsRelevance: 1.8% - 10 KB (1581 words) - 11:09, 8 September 2010
- Astrolabe …d Cosimo Bartoli, this side of the astrolabe also seems to have served for drawing in perspective: ''utilissimum proculdubio architectis, atque his, qui opti… Turner, Anthony. ''Early scientific instruments: Europe 1400-1800''. London, Sotheby, 1987. <br />Relevance: 1.7% - 20 KB (3079 words) - 11:51, 7 September 2010
- Large Compasses |descrizione= Compass for drawing large circles, known today as the [[Beam Compasses |beam compasses]]. It c… |categoria_2= Drawing instrumentsRelevance: 1.6% - 599 B (67 words) - 12:05, 27 July 2010
- Knife |categoria_2= Drawing instrumentsRelevance: 1.5% - 756 B (76 words) - 10:23, 27 July 2010
- Stylus |categoria_2= Drawing instrumentsRelevance: 1.5% - 744 B (84 words) - 08:40, 26 July 2010
- Mobile Ruler |categoria_2= Drawing instrumentsRelevance: 1.5% - 762 B (83 words) - 10:31, 27 July 2010
- Perspectograph by Benjamin Bramer |descrizione= Instrument for perspective drawing designed by the German architect Benjamin Bramer, a pupil and brother-in-l… |categoria_2= Drawing instrumentsRelevance: 1.5% - 878 B (92 words) - 12:03, 27 July 2010
- Planispheric Compasses |descrizione= Instrument designed by Guidobaldo del Monte to facilitate drawing the curves in universal planispheres. Formed of two hinged arms fixed to a… |categoria_2= Drawing instrumentsRelevance: 1.5% - 1,022 B (109 words) - 11:08, 27 July 2010
- Double Square |descrizione= T-shaped drawing instrument combining the functions of the [[ruler (1)]] and the [[square]]… |categoria_2= Drawing instrumentsRelevance: 1.5% - 1 KB (116 words) - 11:03, 27 July 2010
- Instrument for Copying Drawings …e blank sheet of paper placed on the opposite side. To enlarge or reduce a drawing, it was sufficient to multiply or reduce the measurements. |categoria_2= Drawing instrumentsRelevance: 1.4% - 1 KB (155 words) - 08:35, 10 September 2010
- Compasses without Center |descrizione= [[Compasses]] for drawing large circles described by Giacomo Contarini as an invention of Fabrizio M… |categoria_2= Drawing instrumentsRelevance: 1.4% - 1 KB (150 words) - 12:14, 27 July 2010
- Ruler (1) …jujube or sorb, either domestic or wild … [they have] a squared edge for drawing occult lines, or blunt with the point of an ivory stylus, or with a pencil… |categoria_2= Drawing instrumentsRelevance: 1.3% - 1 KB (165 words) - 08:36, 26 July 2010
- Beam Compasses |descrizione= Compass for drawing large circumferences composed of a long rod with two cursors sliding along… http://www.mathsinstruments.me.uk/page63.html (English)Relevance: 1.3% - 2 KB (192 words) - 11:12, 8 September 2010
- Pen …ble, clear and transparent, and medium-fine… But pens for outlining, and drawing capitals… do not suddenly burn the ink, nor damage the edges of rulers, … |categoria_2= Drawing instrumentsRelevance: 1.3% - 2 KB (230 words) - 11:33, 8 September 2010
- Drawing Instrument for Sundials … place and fixing the zodiacal disc in relation to the desired size of the drawing. By means of a string, the zodiacal signs were then projected onto the hor… |categoria_2= Drawing instrumentsRelevance: 1.3% - 1 KB (207 words) - 08:33, 10 September 2010
- Sight by Ludovico Cigoli |categoria_2= Drawing instrumentsRelevance: 1.3% - 2 KB (234 words) - 11:56, 27 July 2010
- Gnomonic Stylus …st place another stylus four times longer than the first on the table. The drawing is reproduced by moving the table in the sunlight so that, at each move, t… |categoria_2= Drawing instrumentsRelevance: 1.3% - 2 KB (218 words) - 11:04, 27 July 2010
- Universal Horarius |categoria_2= Drawing instrumentsRelevance: 1.3% - 2 KB (229 words) - 10:40, 27 July 2010
- Door by Don Gerolamo da Perugia …. He then raises the “window” and traces the intersection point on the drawing paper. This operation is then repeated for all of the significant points o… |categoria_2= Drawing instrumentsRelevance: 1.3% - 2 KB (245 words) - 12:12, 27 July 2010
- Instrument for Conical Anamorphosis …en observed reflected in a conical mirror positioned in place of the given drawing. |categoria_2= Drawing instrumentsRelevance: 1.3% - 2 KB (232 words) - 11:05, 27 July 2010
- Double Parallel Ruler …he base of the vertical rod. To reproduce a drawing on the same scale, the drawing is placed above the board, and the sight becomes an indicator of the vario… |categoria_2= Drawing instrumentsRelevance: 1.3% - 2 KB (222 words) - 12:10, 27 July 2010
- Sight by Jacob Keser |categoria_2= Drawing instrumentsRelevance: 1.3% - 2 KB (238 words) - 11:56, 27 July 2010
- Instrument for Plane Anamorphosis …point advances on the longer rod at ever greater increments. The resulting drawing is thus a deformed copy of the original, a flat anamorphoses that shows an… |categoria_2= Drawing instrumentsRelevance: 1.2% - 2 KB (245 words) - 11:07, 27 July 2010
- Perspectograph by Tommaso Laureti …lines of the real configuration and the converging ones of the perspective drawing. |categoria_2= Drawing instrumentsRelevance: 1.2% - 2 KB (273 words) - 10:37, 27 July 2010
- Perspectograph by Johann H.Lambert … also attached to the ruler converging at the ''distance point''. The plan drawing is fixed below the ''ground line'' while the sheet on which the perspectiv… |categoria_2= Drawing instrumentsRelevance: 1.2% - 2 KB (256 words) - 10:13, 27 July 2010
- Instrument for Cylindrical Anamorphosis …at ever greater increments, from the centre of the cylinder. The resulting drawing is a deformed copy of the original, a cylindrical anamorphosis whose other… |categoria_2= Drawing instrumentsRelevance: 1.2% - 2 KB (274 words) - 11:06, 27 July 2010
- Perspectograph by Jacopo Barozzi Da Vignola …without any note, I have decided to place here, to show the variety of the instruments, and that all of them depend on the window.” The resemblance to the “w… |categoria_2= Drawing instrumentsRelevance: 1.2% - 2 KB (296 words) - 10:44, 27 July 2010
- Square by Bernardo Buontalenti …lla dell'Ambrogiana: "Done this day the 5th of June 1595: This perspective drawing of the Most Serene Grand Duchess of Tuscany has been done by my own hand; … |categoria_2= Drawing instrumentsRelevance: 1.2% - 2 KB (318 words) - 11:55, 27 July 2010
- Mace … that serves as guide for the ''mazza'' as it slides along the edge of the drawing board with its sheet of paper. When the board is positioned vertically wit… |categoria_2= Drawing instrumentsRelevance: 1.2% - 2 KB (308 words) - 08:19, 21 July 2010
- Perspectograph by Jobst Bürgi … horizontal line. When the diopter rotates upward or downward instead (the drawing board remains immobile), the pen traces a vertical line. |categoria_2= Drawing instrumentsRelevance: 1.2% - 2 KB (317 words) - 10:12, 27 July 2010
- Square by Egnazio Danti …the graduated scale, is used to transcribe the intersection point onto the drawing paper. The image observed is basically overturned on the horizontal plane.… |categoria_2= Drawing instrumentsRelevance: 1.2% - 2 KB (356 words) - 08:31, 10 September 2010
- Perspectograph by Samuel Marolois …ray with the vertical section rod sliding in a guide along the edge of the drawing board. A sliding cursor on the section rod fixes the perspective position … …matching height point, and then brought back onto the vertical of the plan drawing.Relevance: 1.2% - 2 KB (327 words) - 10:17, 27 July 2010
- Door by Pietro Accolti … is closed and the position of the ball is transcribed onto the sheet of drawing paper. A variant of this instrument, with the “window” hinged to the b… |categoria_2= Drawing instrumentsRelevance: 1.2% - 2 KB (332 words) - 12:11, 27 July 2010
- Instrument for Orthographic Projections …ce. The instrument was later modified by Johannes Faulhaber to be used for drawing bodies in isometric projection (1610). |categoria_2= Drawing instrumentsRelevance: 1.2% - 2 KB (340 words) - 12:06, 27 July 2010
- Door by Orazio Trigrini de' Marij …elighted in these most noble professions, has found, along with many other instruments, this “window” as well, which is fabricated double... Practice is nece… |categoria_2= Drawing instrumentsRelevance: 1.2% - 2 KB (367 words) - 12:12, 27 July 2010
- Perfect Compasses … paper. In the Renaissance it was known as “oval compass, or compass for drawing ovals” ([[Elliptical Compasses |elliptical compasses]]) and several vari… |categoria_2= Drawing instrumentsRelevance: 1.2% - 3 KB (349 words) - 13:14, 29 November 2010
- Perspective Ruler … point cursor until the plumb bob falls on a significant point on the plan drawing. Below the line serving as ''ground line'', the string reproduces an ortho… |categoria_2= Drawing instrumentsRelevance: 1.2% - 2 KB (348 words) - 10:28, 27 July 2010
- Parabolic Compasses |categoria_2= Drawing instrumentsRelevance: 1.2% - 3 KB (383 words) - 10:22, 27 July 2010
- Perspectograph by Mario Bettini …d like a [[pantograph]], allowing the artist to draw from life and to copy drawings in enlarged or reduced scale. |categoria_2=Drawing instrumentsRelevance: 1.1% - 3 KB (454 words) - 11:59, 27 July 2010
- Epicicloid Compasses …4 r). Obviously, their perfect construction depended on an equally perfect drawing of their curved contour. Such a curve could be drawn only with the aid of … |categoria_2= Drawing instrumentsRelevance: 1.1% - 3 KB (479 words) - 11:25, 8 September 2010
- Perspectograph by Wentzel Jamnitzer …y placed below the plan view of the object, the first rod was shifted, the drawing with the plan removed, and the second rod overturned forward to trace the … |categoria_2= Drawing instrumentsRelevance: 1.1% - 4 KB (522 words) - 11:57, 27 July 2010
- Glass …rough a glass” (''Underweisung der messung'', Nuremberg, 1525, IV). Some drawings dated by the artist show that Dürer finalized his version in 1515, calli… |categoria_2= Drawing instrumentsRelevance: 1.1% - 4 KB (545 words) - 11:43, 21 July 2010
- Perspectograph by Vincenzo Scamozzi …nt, having interchangeable points, could also be used to enlarge or reduce drawings, exactly like the [[pantograph]]. Errard de Bar-le-Duc, Jean. ''Le premier livre des instruments mathematiques mechaniques'', Nancy, 1584, tav. 36.<br />Relevance: 1.1% - 4 KB (562 words) - 11:58, 27 July 2010
- Mirror …hitectural quadratures, by placing the model of a building on a mirror and drawing its apparent form (Cristoforo Sorte, ''Osservazioni nella pittura'' [Obser… |categoria_2= Drawing instrumentsRelevance: 1.1% - 4 KB (630 words) - 10:35, 26 July 2010
- Elliptical Compasses |descrizione= Compass for drawing ellipses. Documented already in Arab mathematical tradition under the name… [http://catalogue.museogalileo.it/object/BoxForMathematicalInstruments_n02.html Firenze, Museo Galileo. Istituto di Storia della Scienza, inv. 59…Relevance: 1.1% - 5 KB (629 words) - 11:23, 8 September 2010
- Perspectograph by Ludovico Cigoli … technical stratagem suggested to the artist how to use the instrument for drawing anamorphoses. Portraying an object with the section inclined provides a de… |categoria_2= Drawing instrumentsRelevance: 1.1% - 4 KB (648 words) - 12:01, 27 July 2010
- Veil …e selected points. The drawing was then done by transcribing on a sheet of drawing paper marked with a grid like the veil, all of the points and lines that a… |categoria_2= Drawing instrumentsRelevance: 1.1% - 4 KB (616 words) - 08:42, 26 July 2010
- Door …, which tended to sag when stretched too far, impairing the precision of a drawing and allowing only small, rather nearby objects to be drawn. Moreover, this… |categoria_2= Drawing instrumentsRelevance: 1.1% - 5 KB (726 words) - 10:42, 27 July 2010
- Pantograph …ld also be used to make perspective drawings from life and even anamorphic drawings, as stated in the treatise: "We can with the same Parallelogram... Draw i… …heatralische Perspektive und der Beschreibung eines neuen perspektivischen Instruments'', Berlino, 1795, Appendice seconda.<br />Relevance: 1.0% - 6 KB (859 words) - 11:31, 8 September 2010
- Geometric and Military Compasses Hambly, Maya. ''Drawing Instruments 1580-1980'', Londra, Sotheby’s Publications, 1988, pp. 135-142.<br /> Righini Bonelli, Maria Luisa; Settle, Thomas. ''The antique instruments of the Museum of history of science in Florence'', Firenze 1978, pp. 18-19…Relevance: 1.0% - 6 KB (819 words) - 15:18, 7 September 2010
- "Bussola viva" (Alive Compass) …struments] "With the ''bossolo vivo'' we determine all of the lines of the drawing...". [[Category:Measuring instruments|Bussola viva]]Relevance: 0.2% - 2 KB (205 words) - 10:33, 12 November 2009
- Archimeter …ns, and we have named it ARCHIMETRO, because among all the other geometric instruments we have found i this name most suitable for it...". The instrument consist… Image: 0053-10224.jpg|Drawing of archimeter, in Giovanni Battista Aleotti, ''De la scienza…'', p. 543Relevance: 0.0% - 2 KB (317 words) - 10:38, 7 September 2010
- Forces Gauge …on of equilibrium. It was used in designing wheels for mills and pumps for drawing water from wells. |categoria_1= Measuring instrumentsRelevance: 0.0% - 2 KB (217 words) - 08:26, 10 September 2010
- "Squadra mobile" (folding square) …ths, and to urban and territorial surveying with the relevant cartographic drawing. The two arms (one called stationary, the other mobile) are fitted with si… |categoria_1= Measuring instrumentsRelevance: 0.0% - 2 KB (265 words) - 11:43, 27 July 2010
- "Bussola Morta" (Dead Compass) … position angles and distances from the surveying station, onto a sheet of drawing paper. The instrument was called "morta" (dead) because it had no magnetiz… [[Category:Measuring instruments|Bussola Morta]]Relevance: 0.0% - 2 KB (214 words) - 10:18, 12 November 2009
- Monicometer …ectural measurements and surveying formed of a simple board with sheets of drawing paper on which the surveyor traced the sighted lines directly, constructin… |categoria_1= Measuring instrumentsRelevance: 0.0% - 2 KB (248 words) - 07:59, 8 September 2010
- "Compasso Roverino" (Compasses of Della Rovere) …g lines. Two cursors probably slid up and down the slots; they appear in a drawing by Senator Giacomo Contarini, who records the instrument as [["Compasso Ma… [[Category:Measuring instruments|Compasso Roverino]]Relevance: 0.0% - 2 KB (304 words) - 12:38, 13 November 2009
- Proportional Compasses …sser length, depending on how much you want to diminish the object you are drawing. Proportional compasses made of rods and joints used like tongs"). The ''s… …1 A r-v; cfr. Frommel, Christoph L. e Adams, Nicholas, ''The Architectural Drawings of Antonio da Sangallo the Younger and His Circle'', vol. I, ''Fortificat…Relevance: 0.0% - 9 KB (1208 words) - 14:20, 7 September 2010