Pantograph. Frontispiece from Pantagraphice by Christoph Scheiner, printed in Rome in 1631. Various Popes, bishops and saints are depicted watching a

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Pantograph. Frontispiece from Pantagraphice by Christoph Scheiner, printed in Rome in 1631. Various Popes, bishops and saints are depicted watching a disembodied arm drawing using a perspective point. Scheiner invented the pantograph in 1603. This is a collection of several metal arms linked in parallelograms. A pointer in one position is traced over a document, and a pen at another position produces and identical, enlarged or miniaturised copy.

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Size: 3527px × 4961px
Photo credit: © MIDDLE TEMPLE LIBRARY/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: 1600s, 1631, 17th, black, century, christoph, copy, copying, description, diagram, drawing, engraving, illustration, inventor, monochrome, pantagraphice, pantograph, scaling, scheiner, white