L'Uso del la squadra mobile, con la quale per teorica, & pratica si misura geometricamente ogni distanza, altezzi, e profondita ...
By: da Ottavio Fabri
Edition: [2nd ed.].
Publisher: Appresso Pietro Bertelli
Published: 1615
Place of publication: In Padova
Language: ita
Number of pages: 56
Subjects: Surveying; Early works to 1800; Mathematical instruments
Notes: Title within illustrated engraved border.

Folded chart.

Leaves printed on both sides.

Head- and tail-pieces; initials.

Printer's device on colophon.

"A radical departure from the ordinary square is the squadra mobile of Fabri. Whatever advantage was to be gained from the use of the 180 degree arc, it does not seem to have impressed Fabri's successors, for it stands as a lone example." Cf. Edmond Kiely, Surveying Instruments, p. 152.

Riccardi, I, 434

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