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LicensePair of 121/2 inch dividers made during the seventeenth century
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© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, London
Pair of 121/2 inch dividers made during the seventeenth century
Science Museum Group
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, London
Pair of 121/2 inch dividers made during the seventeenth century
Science Museum Group
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, London
Pair of 121/2 inch dividers made during the seventeenth century, maker and place of production unknown.
Dividers are mathematical instruments used in technical drawing to measure and copy a distance from one surface to another when creating copies of a drawing and for calculation using a sector where the points of each arm are positioned against the corresponding scales on each arm of the sector, enabling a claculation to be made. The design of dividers changed very little over the centuries.
Details
- Category:
- Mathematics
- Object Number:
- 1959-120
- Materials:
- steel (metal)
- type:
- drawing instruments and dividers (compass)
- credit:
- Victoria and Albert Museum
