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• "Squadra Scamozziana" (Square by Vincenzo Scamozzi)
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• "Proteo Militare" (Military proteus)
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• 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…
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• Seste
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• Meridian Pointer
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• Euclidean Compasses
  …ons of the compasses, Besson also describes its application to perspective drawing. |categoria_1= Measuring instruments
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• "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 instruments
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• 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…
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• Architectonic Sector
  |descrizione= [[Proportional Compasses | Proportional compasses]] for drawing the architectural orders widely used in Britain, modelled after the [["Arc… |categoria_1= Measuring instruments
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• 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 instruments
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• "Lucerniere" (Candelstick)
  |categoria_2= Drawing instruments [[Category:Drawing instruments|Lucerniere]]
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• "Telaro" (Frame)
  |categoria_2= Drawing instruments [[Category:Drawing instruments|Telaro]]
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• "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 instruments
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• 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 instruments
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• Protractor
  Generic name for instruments used to divide circles and measure plane angles. They can be circular, sem… |categoria_1= Measuring instruments
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• Folding Square
  … Andreas Albrecht as an instrument specifically designed for architectural drawing. |categoria_1= Measuring instruments
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• Gnomon
  …heric plate and two graduated vanes. It could also be used for perspective drawing. |categoria_1= Measuring instruments
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• 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 />
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• 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.
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• 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…
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• "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]]
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• 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…
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• "Spiracolo" (Pinhole)
  |categoria_2= Drawing instruments [[Category:Drawing instruments|Spiracolo]]
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• Vertical Staff
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• 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…
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• 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…
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• 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 instruments
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• 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…
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• 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…
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• 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…
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• 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 instruments
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• 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 />
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• Large Compasses
  |descrizione= Compass for drawing large circles, known today as the [[Beam Compasses |beam compasses]]. It c… |categoria_2= Drawing instruments
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• Knife
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• Stylus
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• Mobile Ruler
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• 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 instruments
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• 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 instruments
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• Double Square
  |descrizione= T-shaped drawing instrument combining the functions of the [[ruler (1)]] and the [[square]]… |categoria_2= Drawing instruments
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• 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 instruments
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• Compasses without Center
  |descrizione= [[Compasses]] for drawing large circles described by Giacomo Contarini as an invention of Fabrizio M… |categoria_2= Drawing instruments
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• 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 instruments
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• 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)
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• 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 instruments
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• 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 instruments
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• Sight by Ludovico Cigoli
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• 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 instruments
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• Universal Horarius
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• 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 instruments
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• Instrument for Conical Anamorphosis
  …en observed reflected in a conical mirror positioned in place of the given drawing. |categoria_2= Drawing instruments
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