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Device with 3 layers to measure height, distance and surfaces. It also helps in making maps and can do calculations.

Gift by stadhouder Willem IV to the Royal Society in London.

"Meetkundige machine" Wytze Foppes, 1751, Leeuwarden

9688, Museum Boerhaave, Leiden
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Author tacowitte from Holland
Camera location52° 09′ 40.73″ N, 4° 29′ 20.58″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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