Descrittione, et uso dell’holometro

by Abel Foulon

$2,850 · Offered by Martayan Lan

First edition · Signed

Rare first edition of the earliest description in Italian of the surveying instrument termed by Kiely "the most popular triangulation instrument on the Continent" (Surveying Instruments, p. 226). The basic design takes its departure from Münster’s "trigonus" described in the Rudimenta Mathematica (1551), but substitutes a solid board..... More

• Binding: Leather

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