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Folding rule
    • Setting:
      Room VI
    • Maker:
      Antoine La Motte
    • Place:
      Rome
    • Date:
      1768
    • Materials:
      brass
    • Dimensions:
      length 175 mm
    • Inventory:
      628
    • Folding rule (Inv. 628)

Folding rule consisting of two octagonal-section bars bearing measurement scales on their sides: the "mercantile" palm, the "architectural" palm, the Greek and Roman foot, and foot measures in use in various European locations (Vienna, Constantinople, Sweden, London, Amsterdam, Paris, Turin, Danzig [Gdansk], Genoa, Madrid and the Rhone region). One side is engraved with the signature of the maker, Antoine La Motte, about whom we have no information.

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