Dividers and compasses are drawing instruments that have been used since antiquity to measure distances, transfer lengths from one drawing to another, and draw circles. The Greek mathematician, Euclid ...

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GALILEO'S proportional compasses are said to date from the year 1597. We infer that the instrument consisted of two arms, jointed, as in the accompanying figure, so that one arm could move freely ...