Merge request

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Spirit leveling is the act of, Spirit level is the instrument. No need to merge either of them. Reviewing the spirit leveling article suggests it's surveying related so in the absence of any cats there, Category:Surveying has now been added to it. — Graibeard 00:36, 11 November 2005 (UTC)Reply

spirit level bubble

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Removed the trade query by unsigned as this is not the platform for that. Added sensitivity to the main article --wikieinstein (talk) 11:43, 15 December 2011 (UTC)Reply

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The 1558 book refers to an ancient tool called hammer fish level (plumb bob level), not to a spirit level

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The link http://docnum.u-strasbg.fr/cdm/compoundobject/collection/coll13/id/27045/show/26409 page 605 (157) does not mention any air bubble and talks about a level shaped like a T which was called "hammer fish" in Italy, that time. This is a plumb bob level. A spirit level is not like a T and has no common features with the insect described in the book. (see: http://french.stackexchange.com/questions/17636/is-this-french-text-year-1558-describing-a-spirit-level-more-than-100-years-be)

This text should be removed because it does not refer to a spirit level: "It must however be noted that the Frenchman Guillaume Rondelet mentions the spirit level in his scientific work called "L’histoire entière des poissons" in 1558. Here he compares the shape of the body of the dragonfly larvae to a spirit bubble level. (See Libellen (de)) Therefore, it must be assumed the spirit level was in existence in some form at least a century before Thevenot claimed to have invented it. To see Rondelet's original French work, go to paper page 157 (electronic page 0605) at the following link: http://docnum.u-strasbg.fr/cdm/compoundobject/collection/coll13/id/27045/show/26409. Here he describes the "Libella fluuiatilis" (the dragonfly larvae) and makes the comparison. Interestingly, this is apparently the historical reason that in the German language today the dragonfly and the spirit level are both named "Libelle". (As per wiki reference above.)"

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.56.1.38 (talk) 11:40, 30 January 2016 (UTC)Reply