Bronze calipers. Yangzhou, China, Eastern Han dynasty, 25-220 AD [1800×1920]

    by MunakataSennin

    5 Comments

    1. LazarusOwenhart on

      Ok there’s a fish on top, with the cross hatches presumably being demarcations. So it’s a ‘scale’. Terrible pun China 0/10.

    2. IllllIIlIllIllllIIIl on

      That’s cool as hell! For some reason I didn’t expect sliding calipers to exist two millennia ago, but it makes sense, the idea isn’t exactly that complicated.

    Leave A Reply