Skip to main content
Wellcome Collection homepage
  • Visit us
  • What’s on
  • Stories
  • Collections
  • Get involved
  • About us
Sign in to your library account
Search for anything
Library account

Measurement - Early works to 1800

Part of
Measurement

On this page

  • Works from the collections

Works from the collections

3 works

    • Books
    • Online

    Albertvs Dvrervs Nvrembergensis Pictor Hvivs ̨etatis celeberrimus, versus è germanica lingua in latinam, Pictoribus, Fabris ̨erariis ac lignariis, Lapicidis, Statuariis, & vniuersis demum qui circino, gnomone, libella, aut alioqui certa mensura opera sua examinant propè necessarius, adeò exacte. Quatuor his suarum institutionum geometricarum libris, lineas, superficies et solida corpora tractauit. Adhibitis designationibus ad eam rem accommodissimis / [Albrecht Dürer].

    Albrecht Dürer | Date: Anno M. D. XXXII 1532
    • Books
    • Online

    A description & use of a large quadrant, contrived and made by H. Sutton : Accomodated with various lines, for the easie resolving of all astronomical, geometrical, and gnomonical problems, for working of proportions, and for finding the hour universally. Whereunto is added, The description and use of a geodætical scheme, and gnomonical instrument: the first shewing (by inspection) the dimensions of all geometrical bodies: the other is applied to gnomonical uses. Published by R. Morden.

    Sutton, Henry (Mathematical instrument maker) | Date: 1669
    • Books

    A treatise on mensuration. Both in theory and practice / by Charles Hutton.

    Charles Hutton | Date: 1770

Wellcome Collection

183 Euston Road
London NW1 2BE

+44 (0)20 7611 2222
info@wellcomecollection.org

  • Getting here

Today’s opening times

  • Galleries
    10:00 – 18:00
  • Library
    10:00 – 18:00
  • Café
    10:00 – 18:00
  • Shop
    10:00 – 18:00

Opening times

Our building has:

  • Step free access
  • Hearing loops

Access information

  • Visit us
  • What’s on
  • Stories
  • Collections
  • Get involved
  • About us
  • Contact us
  • Jobs
  • Media office
  • Developers
  • Privacy and terms
  • Cookie policy
  • Manage cookies
  • Modern slavery statement
TikTok
Facebook
Instagram
YouTube

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence