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Sector (instrument)
Known as:
Proportional compass
, Sector
, Sector(instrument)
The sector, also known as a proportional compass or military compass, was a major calculating instrument in use from the end of the sixteenth century…
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Early Telescopes and Ancient Scientific Instruments in the Paintings of Jan Brueghel the Elder
P. Selvelli
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P. Molaro
2015
Corpus ID: 62884552
Ancient instruments of high interest for research on the origin and diffusion of early scientific devices in the late XVI - early…
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