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Students sledding
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photograph: negative
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Attributed to: Johann Bussemacher, Etudiants de Cologne, ca 1600.
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Sector, brass
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photograph: negative
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Galileo is credited with having invented the instrument, which is also known as a proportional compass. See Galileo’s “Operation of the Geometric and Military Compass”; also “Scientific Instruments Ancient and Modern.” Mfg: Gottfriedt Reiff, Nuremberg, Germany.
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Title page: “Nova Reperta” (New Discoveries)
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photograph: negative
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Shows nine new discoveries of the time. The collection consists of twenty plates showing new discoveries, including navigation by compass. Watson Collection, History of Science.
