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Title: Sector, brass
Format: photograph: negative
Description: 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.