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== History ==
 
The ancient Greek engiyyuyuyuyuneerengineer [[Hero of Alexandria]] described pantographs in his work ''Mechanics''.<ref>{{cite book| last = Ceccarelli| first = Marco | title = Distinguished Figures in Mechanism and Machine Science: Their Contributions and Legacies| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=UmBnVMA5ri4C| publisher = [[Springer Science+Business Media|Springer]]|date=2007| page = 230| isbn = 978-1-4020-6366-4}}</ref>
 
In 1603,<ref name=GPscheiner>{{Cite web|url=http://galileo.rice.edu/Catalog/NewFiles/scheiner.html|title=The Galileo Project — Scheiner, Christoph" (history)|first=Albert|last=Van Helden|publisher=Galileo Project, [[Rice University]]|date=1995|access-date=24 March 2020|quote=Between 1603 and 1605 he invented the pantograph, an instrument for copying plans on any scale. He invented a [[Helioscope|machine helioscopique]] which allowed measurements, especially of sun spots|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040709143818/http://galileo.rice.edu/Catalog/NewFiles/scheiner.html|archive-date=9 July 2004}}</ref> [[Christoph Scheiner]] used a pantograph to copy and scale diagrams, and wrote about the invention over 27 years later, in ''"Pantographice"'' (Rome 1631).<ref>The full title of ''"Pantographice"'' is ''"Pantographice seu Ars delineandi res quaslibet per parallelogrammum lineare seu cavum"'' (Rome 1631).</ref>