COMPAS DE PROPORTION, dit demi-pied de Roy, Ancienne Monarchie.

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COMPAS DE PROPORTION, dit demi-pied de Roy, Ancienne Monarchie.

Instrument de mesure composé de deux réglettes unies entre elles par une charnière gravée de pétales de fleur. Les réglettes sont signées « Tuiller Les Cordes à Paris ».
Longueur 16,2 cm plié, longueur 33,2 cm déplié.

France.
Ancienne Monarchie.
Très bon état.

NOTE
Avant l'instauration du mètre et du kilogramme, qui eut lieu à la Révolution française, il existait une multitude d'unités de mesures complexes et non-homogènes. D'où l'expression du XVIIIème « avoir deux poids et deux mesures ». Les unités de longueur se basaient par exemple sur le corps, les pieds, les coudes, les pouces, les paumes…

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