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mesolabium

[John Chalmers, Divisions of the Tetrachord]

A mechanical instrument supposedly invented by Archimedes or Eratosthenes by which geometric means can be extracted graphically.

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[Joe Monzo]

An example of the mesolabium may be seen in Part 2 of Zarlino's Le institutione harmoniche [1558].

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