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A radio latino is a measuring instrument used in surveying and military engineering starting in the 16th century. It gets its name from the inventor, Latino Orsini. The radio latino can be considered a kind of geometric square.〔Daumas, Maurice, ''Scientific Instruments of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries and Their Makers'', Portman Books, London 1989 ISBN 978-0-7134-0727-3〕 It was a general purpose instrument that could be used for a variety of angular measurements as well as depth and inside dimension measures. ==Usage== The slider (blue in the diagram to the right) could move along the central rod, causing the deltoid formed by four other rods to change shape symmetrically. The end points of the rods had sights on them, allowing various sight lines to be defined. The central rod was graduated with various scales. These scales allowed the angles between the end rods (represented by the red lines in the diagram) to be determined as well as the angle with its vertex at one end of the main rod and sides (represented by the green lines in the diagram) through the outer joints of the rods. With different graduations, one could determine or lay out: *angles between sight lines with a degree scale. *internal angles of regular polygons with polygon scales. *internal diameters and dimensions (such as the inside bore of a cannon) using the distance between the outer joints (represented by the grey dimension lines in the diagram) using a length scale. *gun elevations for cannon. *heights of objects by measuring angles. *shadow square calculations. *depths from the free end of the main rod to the slider. When folded, the radio latino would resemble a sword and was stored in a sheath or scabbard. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Radio latino」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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