Measuring-instruments posters & prints

Engraving Illustration of Weather Measuring Instruments Anonymous

William Wollaston's reflecting goniometer for measuring the angles of crystals, 1874 Unknown

Surveying, early 17th century Unknown

Colorimeter, after a design by Labilliardiere with modifications by Salleron, 1871 Unknown

Illustration of Tangent Galvanometer Anonymous

Astronomical quadrant John Bird

Surveying compass Unknown

An artist drawing a lute with the aid of a perspective apparatus Albrecht Dürer or Duerer

Quadrant for Stellar Measurements Anonymous

Surveying, early 17th century Unknown

Self Portrait holding callipers over a mask, c.1768-70 Thomas Patch

Method of measuring angles with a cross-staff, 1636 Unknown

Man with rule Pieter Kikkert

Surveying and timekeeping, 1551 Unknown

Experimental barometers used by the Accademia dell Cimento, Florence, Italy, 1691 Unknown

Instrument for perspective drawing James Peacock

Astronomical quadrant John Bird

The Draughtsman of the Lute Albrecht Dürer

Illustration of Bird's Quadrant Anonymous

Measuring the distance from ship to shore, using a quadrant marked with shadow-scales, 1598 Unknown

Advertisment for Barometers made by John Patrick English School

Surveying, 1551 Unknown

Instrument for perspective drawing James Peacock

Illustration from Durer's 'Four Books on Measurement' Albrecht Dürer or Duerer

Using astrolabes to calculate the height of a steeple, 1539 Petrus Apianus

Using a quadrant with a plumb bob to calculate the height of a tower by triangulation, 1551 Unknown

Inner and outer sides of the right foot Anonymous

Takyuddin and other astronomers at the Galata observatory founded in 1557 by Sultan Suleyman Turkish School

Thales of Miletus Nicolaes de Clerck

Finding the angular distance between two edges of a wood using a cross-staff, 1617-1619 Unknown

Ligature Anonymous

Baseline building, Lough Foyle Unknown

Surveying, from Levinus Hulsius Instrumentorum Mechanicorum, Frankfurt-am-Main, 1605 Levinus Hulsius

Experimental barometers used by the Accademia dell Cimento, Florence, Italy, 1691 Unknown

Title page of The Description and Use of the Sector by Edmund Gunter, 1636 Unknown

Stephen smith's Anonymous