A forgotten contrivance: a study of the diagonal scale and its appearance in mathematics texts from 1714 to the present

DOI10.1080/17498430.2014.917391MaRDI QIDQ5178407zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Kristina Leifeste Brantley

Publication date 16 March 2015

Published in BSHM Bulletin: Journal of the British Society for the History of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/17498430.2014.917391

zbMATH Keywords

diagonal scaleengineering graphicsLevi Ben Gersonmathematical toolsmensurationTicho Brahe

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in Late Antiquity and medieval Europe (01A35) History of mathematics in the 18th century (01A50)

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