Measuring Wheel

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Measuring Wheel

Ogilby's Wheel Meter. One of a set of 85 lantern slides showing various locations.

This is a section of a larger illustration that appeared as a panoramic frontispiece plate to John Ogilby's 'Britannia', a road atlas, 1675, depicting a surveyor's wheel being used to measure distances.

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H.513/1981.80