The graphometer, semicircle or semicircumferentor is a surveying instrument used for angle measurements. It consists of a semicircular limb divided into...
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Alidade table Cosmolabe Dioptra Dumpy level Engineer's chain Geodimeter Graphometer Groma (surveying) Laser scanning Level Level staff Measuring tape Plane...
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various other graduated circles (see circumferentor) and semicircles (see graphometer) were used to obtain either vertical or horizontal angle measurements...
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see: Orders of magnitude (volume) Circumferentor Cross staff Goniometer Graphometer Inclinometer Mural instrument Protractor Quadrant Reflecting instruments...
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in each vane. This type of alidade could be found on a plane table, graphometer or similar instrument. Alidades A and C are similar to B but have a slit...
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staff. These include: Cross-head, cross-sight, surveyor's cross or cross Graphometer Circumferentor Holland circle Miner's dial Optical square Surveyor's...
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Monthly, Vol. 31, No. 5 (May, 1924), pp. 222–227 (JSTOR) Howard Eves: A Graphometer. The Mathematics Teacher, Vol. 41, No. 7 (November 1948), pp. 311–313...
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to the Académie Royale des Sciences in Paris and produced compasses, graphometers, astronomical quadrants, transit instruments, drawing instruments, and...
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barometric, bathometer, chronometer, diameter, diametric, dysmetria, graphometer, hexameter, hygrometer, hygrometry, isodiametric, isometric, isoperimetric...
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Clara—15 mi (24 km) to the southeast. Font measured the tree with a graphometer: fifty varas (137 feet; 42 m) high and 5.5 varas (15 feet; 3 m) around...
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Cathedral in London. He built high-quality mathematical instruments, notably graphometers, compasses, and quadrants. Wikimedia Commons has media related to James...
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probably best known as designer of the surveying instrument known as the graphometer. Danfrie was born in Cornouaille in Brittany. Danfrie went to Paris in...
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copy of Pantometrum Kircherianum at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Graphometer Pantometrum Kircherianum, hoc est, instrumentum geometricum novum, à...
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barometric, bathometer, chronometer, diameter, diametric, dysmetria, graphometer, hexameter, hygrometer, hygrometry, isodiametric, isometric, isoperimetric...
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used to stake out right angles, for example on a construction site. Graphometer Alidade Turner (1998). Scientific Instruments, 1500-1900: An Introduction...
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Springer, pp. 114–116, ISBN 9783642144400 Eves, Howard (November 1948), "A graphometer", The Mathematics Teacher, 41 (7): 311–313, doi:10.5951/mt.41.7.0311...
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other instruments appeared: the planchette bearing an alidade, the graphometer, the theodolite or the quarter-circle. However, it is likely that the...
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quadrantulu de campania al D-lui Colonel de Artilerie A. Costiescu ("The Graphometer or Campaign Quadrant of the Artillery Colonel A. Costiescu"). In January...
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hygrometer (for which he was accused of plagiarism by another inventor); graphometers; drawing instrument set; protractor, set square, with plumb-bob. In 1690...
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