Following works well with titles centred.
Sides 1 & 2, French jeton 1480–1520
(collection Calculant)
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Following works well and has the footnote down under.
Picture is centred but Caption is left justified if caption [including (collection Calculant)] is longer than 77 characters.. Note that dropping next line down below the line break slashes seems to overcome the problem.
Two pairs of English eighteenth century dividers with 12
(collection Calculant)
The following picture is left-aligned despite supposing to be centred.
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| 1892: Ropp’s Commercial Calculator |
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Following works with centred caption and footnote set at page bottom.
Using advanced table instructions works, but gives horizontal line between caption lines. Undersirable.
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| CONCORDIA.1577.CVM.PIETATE. | CALCVLI.ORDINVM.BELGII. PORT SALV |
| 1577: Sides 1 & 2 of calculi | (collection Calculant) |
The following is the same but now implemented with normal table setttings.
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| CONCORDIA.1577.CVM.PIETATE. | CALCVLI.ORDINVM.BELGII. PORT SALV |
| 1577: Sides 1 & 2 of calculi | (collection Calculant) |
Following Table is not centred but caption is correctly centered on picture with lines less obvious.
Compasses from 1710–71 T. Jefferys sculp
(Collection Calculant)
In this drawing, at the top can be seen the emerging shape of various compasses, constructed from brass and steel. Below, from this collection, is a typical pair of such dividers, also from the eighteenth century:
French drawing instruments ~1880
(collection Calculant)
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| Brass French Gunnery Sector | Oxbone Architect’s Sector |
| by Michael Butterfield ~1700 | by T. and H. Doublett ~1830 |
| (collection Calculant) | (collection Calculant) |
1626: Traicté de logarithms by Dennis Henrion
(collection Calculant)
1783: Tables Portatives de Logarithms by Gardiner
(collection Calculant)
The following picture ought to lose its line break because the caption is too long.
Graphical construction of Gunter scale (1624)
reproduced by Henrion 1626
(collection Calculant)
s the high point reached in elegance and utility of the straight slide rules. Production of it lasted until 1973 when electronic calculators rendered it obsolete.
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(i) A simple nomograph for calculating the sum of two numbers (b=a+c)
(ii) Bloch Schnellkalulator
~1924 (collection Calculant)
(iii) Der Zeitermittler
~1947 (collection Calculant)
1 Blah (↑)
2 From Gregorius Reisch, Margarita philosophica nova Anastatic, 1503, reprint with an introduction (in Italian) by Lucia Andreini, Salzburg: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Salzburg, 2002 (3 voll.). (↑)
3 Encyclopaedia Britannica, 3rd Edition, 1797, plate CCCXLIV, Andrew Bell copperlplate. collection Calculant. (↑)
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