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Graduated ruler
    • Setting:
      Room VI
    • Maker:
      unknown
    • Place:
      Urbino
    • Date:
      1661
    • Materials:
      brass
    • Dimensions:
      length 291 mm
    • Inventory:
      638, 3703
    • Graduated ruler (Inv. 638, 3703)
    • Graduated ruler (Inv. 638, 3703)

Ruler consisting of a brass plate engraved with different scales of proportion. On the front is an arithmetical scale divided into 60 equal parts, a geometrical scale divided into 200 decreasing parts, and a polygon scale. The back is engraved with a scale of chords, a scale of metals, a polyhedral scale, and a caliber scale for iron balls The instrument is probably related to the surveying instrument inv. 680, also made in Urbino. The front carries the Medici coat of arms.