Baculometry
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Bacculometry is the art of measuring accessible or inaccessible distances, or lines, by the help of one or more baculi, staves, or rods. Daniel Schwenter has explained this art in his Geometria Practica (1627); and the rules of it are delivered by Wolfius, in his Elements. Jacques Ozanam also gives an illustration of the principles of baculometry.
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- This article incorporates content from the 1728 Cyclopaedia, a publication in the public domain. [1]
- Hutton, Charles. Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary. 1795.
