Proportional compass

Made:: 1843-1844

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Proportional compass, or sector invented by Piaget-Guinand
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Proportional compass, or sector invented by Piaget-Guinand, with "Bulletin de la Societe des Sciences Naturelles de Neuchatel" (1843-1844) and manuscript notes by M. Piaget-Guinand

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Category:: Mathematics

Object Number:: 1910-162

type:: proportional compass

credit:: Piaget, S.

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Proportional compass

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