Recycling Early Modern Mathematical Instrument

• Anthony Turner ^[1]
  1. [1] Independent Scholar, France
• Localización: Nuncius: annali di storia della scienza, ISSN 0394-7394, Vol. 37, Nº. 1, 2022, págs. 42-58
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Examples are given of how old instruments were recycled in the Early-Modern period in consequence of the difficulty and cost of obtaining brass suitable for instrument-making. Details of this practice are illustrated from two astrolabes by Jean Fusoris, one of which, described here, is a new addition to the corpus of his work.