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Caliper compass
Caliper compass consisting of two arched legs displaying small straight marks at the hinge point. The instrument is engraved with the name of its makers, the Peugeot brothers, on whom we have no information.
Creator
- Peugeot Frères
Publisher
- Museo Galileo - Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza
Subject
- Mathematics
- mathematics
- Geometry
Type of item
- Mathematical instrument
- Caliper compass
- Military instrument
- calipers
Medium
- steel
- steel (alloy)
Creator
- Peugeot Frères
Publisher
- Museo Galileo - Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza
Subject
- Mathematics
- mathematics
- Geometry
Type of item
- Mathematical instrument
- Caliper compass
- Military instrument
- calipers
Medium
- steel
- steel (alloy)
Providing institution
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Rights
- © Museo Galileo - Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza
Creation date
- 19th cent.
- 18XX
- 1900
- 1801
Places
- French
Identifier
- urn:imss:instrument:401122
Extent
- length 185 mm
Language
- eng
- ita
References
- http://catalogue.museogalileo.it/indepth/Compasses.html
Year
- 1801
- 1900
Providing country
- Italy