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II.37 Proportional compasses
Maker:Jost Miller
Place:Strasbourg
Date:1616
Materials:brass
Dimensions:length 360 mm
Current inventory:2512
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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.

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