Keuffel & Esser was known for its slide rules and other mathematical instruments, and requested that the architectural firm De Lemos & Cordes design its 1893 headquarters with images of a compass, triangle, pliers and mallet in the frieze.
An inventory taken in 1634 after Zouche's death listed the library as having 250 books and a collection of mathematical instruments, and revealed that the maids' chamber was of a very high standard.
In his account Morrell writes that he was "destitute of the various nautical and mathematical instruments", but other parts of his narrative make it clear that the occasional dead reckoning calculation was the exception to the norm.
Later, Fox confided in the writer, saying that Healy had pawned old mathematical instruments he had lent to him.
According to this story, Archimedes was carrying mathematical instruments, and was killed because the soldier thought that they were valuable items.
Commissioned in the late 15th century by the Duke of Urbino, it is fitted with trompe l'oeil furniture and cupboards whose open doors reveal objects that tell the patron's life story: items like armor, books, and musical and mathematical instruments.
She was responsible for tens of thousands of objects, including sculpture, ceramics, tapestries, furniture, jewelry, metalwork, glass, clocks, mathematical instruments and architectural pieces — almost every kind of art made in Europe from 1400 to 1900 that was not painting or drawing.
A clockmaker by trade, Rittenhouse built mathematical instruments and, it is believed, the first telescope in the United States.
Wright was a skilled designer of mathematical instruments.
