Graphometer
name: label: maker
content: Meurand
notes: label: Description
content: The semicircle of this graphometer is graduated to single minutes, numbered clockwise and counterclockwise, and is read by verniers at either end of the alidade to 6 minutes. The "Meurand à Paris” inscription refers to an instrument maker who worked in Paris in the latter years of the 18th century.
label: Description
content: Ref.: Maurice Daumas, <i>Scientific Instruments of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries</i>, English trans. by Mary Holbrook (New York, 1972), p. 100 and p. 282.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Île-de-France, Paris
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Surveying and Geodesy
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content: Measuring & Mapping
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Daumas, Maurice. Scientific Instruments of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.318175
label: catalog number
content: 318175
label: accession number
content: 232130
objectType: label: Object Name
content: graphometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 1/2 in; 26.67 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/4 in x 11 1/4 in x 5 7/8 in; 10.795 cm x 28.575 cm x 14.9225 cm