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Proportional compasses
    • Setting:
      Room VI
    • Maker:
      Jost Miller
    • Place:
      Strasbourg
    • Date:
      1616
    • Materials:
      brass
    • Dimensions:
      length 360 mm
    • Inventory:
      2512
    • Proportional compasses (Inv. 2512)
    • Proportional compasses (Inv. 2512)

Like the compasses designed by Thomas Hood, these proportional compasses are fitted with a semicircular sector bearing the degree scale, the shadow square, and other measurement scales. Made by Jost Miller, about whom we have no information. Provenance: Medici collections.