Praetorian table in brass |
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Dating | Before 1818 (1677) | ![Praetorian table in brass Foto © Paolo Bonavoglia](foto/003.jpg) |
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Maker | Giacomo Lusverg (1636-1689) |
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To easly have a scale map of a certain zone for military purpose or just to measure a field in the past was used the Pretorian table (the support has gone lost). In fact with such an instrument the operation was fast and with a relative great precision. The tool is incomplete, because a brass bar fixed in the hole near one of the vertexes has gone lost. This piece (the graphometer) was used at the same time to draw lines on a paper sheet placed on the table and to work as goniometer.
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Web page | Praetorian table in brass |
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Cataloghi | Nº | Voce |
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Inv. 2016 | 004 | Praetorian table in brass Provisional numbering! |
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Inv. 1925a | 3 | Tavoletta di ottone divisa in pollici con diottra |
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Inv. 1870 | 3 | Tavoletta di ottone divisa in pollici con diottra |
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Inv. 1838 | 4 | Tavoletta di ottone con diottra inserviente al doppio uffizio di Tavoletta Pretoriana e di Goniometro |
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Inv. 1818 | 5 | Tavoletta di ottone con diottra inserviente al doppio uffizio di Tavoletta Pretoriana e di Goniometro |
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Section | Particular |
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Window | A |
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Conditions | Incomplete | Not working | Intact R |
| Large | 32.0 cm (12.6 in) |
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Width | 3.0 cm (1.2 in) |
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Height | 26.0 cm (10.2 in) |
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Materials | brass, lacquer |
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Sources |
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Alberti G. A., Istuzioni pratiche per l'ingegnero civile, Pietro Savioni Stampatore e Libraio, Venezia, 1782, pag. 38, Tav. IX, fig. 80
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Loans |
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1) Genius I. The mission: discover - research - invent. World Cultural Heritage - Völklingen Hütte, dal 13/05/2007 al 30/03/2008, Völklingen/Saarbrüken (D);
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Restorations |
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1) Restauro presso il Laboratorio del restauro dello strumento di interesse storico - Lotto I. Università degli Studi di Urbino, dal 21/09/2009 al 30/09/2010, Urbino;
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The additional indications which integrate the items of the conservation's state have the following meaning:
(?) = maybe complete; M = maintenance; P = partial; R = restored; D = used for teaching; NC = not checked; X = impossible to verify. |