A three-legged dividers in brass and steel with removeable arm, 19th
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Circa
1850
Country of manufacture
France
Description
A three-legged dividers in brass and steel, with the third arm removeable, used to transfer onto a map the positions of places taken on a globe, by measuring the distances between three points or also it was also used to reproduce drawings or maps to scale.
The present example is not signed, but certainly French, mid-19th century. It measures 16,5cm lenght, so it is of good size.
Two steel points are shorter than 1 millimeter, otherwise excellent condition.
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Le Zograscope
Established by Alexandre Piffault in 2014 and based in Paris at 5 rue de Condé, 75006, very close to Odéon, Le Zograscope specializes in antique and rare books in Science, Medicine and Technology, and rare antique instruments in the same fields. We have especially a strong interest in early and continental microscopy, early and special mathematical/drawing instruments, medical and surgical instrument, and rare technology.
